Calculating the threat of tsunami-Activities

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Activities \| Calculating the threat of tsunami

Global Education Australia
- Tsunami education kit – World Vision, the Australian Red Cross and AusAID have put together this schools kit, which goes beyond the immediate disaster and examines how the disaster fits with bigger picture issues of poverty, development and aid.
Attorney-General’s Department, Emergency Management Australia
- Tsunami lesson plan – students investigate how Tsunami occur and how to stay safe during a Tsunami.
Department of Geography (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- The world-wide earthquake locator – data and maps relating to recent earthquakes.
Project Oceanography, University of South Florida, USA
- Tsunami – students experiment with a cake pan, cling wrap and water and calculate features of tsunami in open ocean.
Space Sciences Laboratory (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Surfing for earthquakes and volcanoes – searching the Internet for data about volcanic and seismic activity.

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Page updated November 2006.

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