Activities

Geohazards Web Quest

Try the Geohazards Web Quest. This print-and-copy task helps students become familiar with the Geohazards Marlborough website functions. It also assists students with their inquiry skills, particularly information gathering and asking good questions. Students need to have an internet connection and their class login. Word (3Mb) | PDF (600k).

Geohazards audio activity

Students can work on this activity while they listen to live or recorded audioconferences - Word (25k) | PDF (220k). Notes from these pages could be shared to help put together a class audioconference summary - Word (29k) | PDF (114k) or Shared Google Doc. 

Interactive, self-marking activities

Background page	Activity
What are geohazards?	Interactive (opens new window)
What causes geohazards?	Interactive (opens new window)
Earthquakes in New Zealand	Interactive (opens new window)
Landslides in New Zealand	Interactive (opens new window)
Tsunami and Tsunami hazard in New Zealand	Interactive (opens new window)
The Earthquake Commission EQC	Interactive (opens new window)
Monitoring and detecting geohazards	Interactive (opens new window)