Shake It Up5

Reflection:

What is our problem,and what have we done so far to help solve it?

Tweet:

How is analyzing geological risks important to society?

REVIEW

Shake It Up Challenge

ACME's List of Prime Locations:

REVIEW

Where do earthquakes occur? How can these areas survive an earthquake? You and your team will become seismologists as you explore how earthquakes occur and the areas that are at risk for such geological catastrophes.

Challenge: ACME Theme Park has decided to go global! ACME is enlisting the aid of several scientists and engineers to determine prime locations around the world to place their theme parks. Soon, ACME will be distributing a list of locations that they feel would be excellent prospects for their park locations. Your job is to prepare a geological risk analysis for each location to determine the best areas for building the theme parks. WARNING: ACME is known for their CRAZY ideas and changing their minds in the mid-project...

Group 1: New Madrid, MO & Greenland

Group 2: Chile & Charleston, SC

Group 3: South Africa & Indonesia

Group 4: Hawaii & San Francisco, CA

Group 5: Anchorage, AK & Japan

Group 6: New Zealand & Dominican Republic

What is the relationship between the movement of tectonic plates and earthquakes?

Essential Questions & Standards

Imagine:

EQ:

Are we able to describe the relationship between plate movements and earthquakes?

Standard:

SPI 0707.7.6 Describe the relationship

between plate movements and earthquakes.

THINK-PAIR-SHARE

Prepare a geological risk analysis for both of your location to determine the best areas for building the theme parks.

What will your team include in the risk analysis for each location?

What information would be important to include in order to persuade ACME to build their theme park at that particular location? Remember...the more scientific or quantitative DATA you have to back up your claim the better!

*You have 5 minutes to make a plan...

**You will use the information on my portalportal under "Earthquakes".

Ask:

What is our problem?

How will we solve it?

Are there any limitations?

Reconstructing Haiti

NEWS FLASH!!!

ACME has to decided to make this challenge just a little more CHALLENGING...

Since you are such an intelligent group of seismologists and engineers, ACME would like you to put your GREAT minds to work! Instead of building their theme parks at a low-risk area, they want you to design and build a theme park at the locations that are most at risk for an earthquake! Your theme park will include buildings for restaurants, shopping, and restrooms, and most importantly a roller coaster with at least one large drop at the beginning, two "twin" hills, and a loopty loop. ACME will award the team with the tallest, "shake" resistant roller coaster with a "Shake It Up" surprise!

The buildings and roller coaster must be "shake" resistant in the case of a major earthquake. You will build a scale model (1:24).

Bell Work: 10/16/15

Need2Know: complete the multiple choice question. Read the article "Using ocean waves to predict the power of earthquakes", and answer the accompanying constructed response question(s).