Calculating the threat of tsunami
Activities
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.
Earth Learning Idea
Tsunami: What controls the speed of a tsunami wave? – students learn about the relationship between water depth and wave velocity by observing a demonstration of a ‘tsunami wave’.
Space Sciences Laboratory (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Surfing for earthquakes and volcanoes – searching the Internet for data about volcanic and seismic activity.
Page updated March 2010.