Resources

Teachers, did you make your own unit or activity or lesson plan for this field trip? If so, please email it to us andrew.penny@core-ed.org for sharing.

• Schools' Emergency Management Plan (2015 update from MoE) - Word (470k, 26 pages)

Contributions

• Generic Planning Sequence for a LEARNZ virtual field trip - Word (249k) | PDF (350k).
• Video question sheet - Word (31k) | PDF (217k) to use for each video (based on SOLO Taxonomy).
• Do a class audioconference summary. Making a class summary of an audioconference is a great way of reviewing the information your students heard. It's easy to do, purely as some text, or as main facts on a picture background. Feel free to use the audioconference summary sheet - Word (29k) | PDF (114k). We'd love to share your ideas so please send your class summary to andrew.penny@core-ed.org.
• Remember you can listen to the enhanced audioconferences again from the audio recordings if you want to gather more information.

Links

• Visit the New Zealand ShakeOut.
• Shakeout for schools including the Shakeout lesson plan (PDF).
• Search Digital NZ for text, images, video, audio and data related to New Zealand earthquakes.
• Search the National Library Collections for New Zealand earthquakes and order digital and printed material free for your class.
• Watch the Earthquake and Faultline Model - Caro Begg demonstrates how to make a simple mechanical model to simulate faults, earthquakes and aftershocks.
• Look at this interesting video about Liquefaction in the suburb of Parklands set to a re-write of a Tim Finn song.
• Visit the Earthquake Commission's educational site to find out how to prepare for natural hazards
• Check out all the material on the Science Learning Hub website
• Watch this clip about the theory of Plate Tectonics from the Discovery Channel Preview Videos 
• The GNS site has links for educators and students and a wealth of information including specific information on the Canterbury Earthquakes
• Check when and where the latest earthquake occurred on the GeoNet recent quakes page
• Visit the Canterbury Quake Live site for information, maps and graphs on aftershocks
• Try the 'Beat the Quake' interactive game
• Take a look at the Civil Defence site "What's the Plan Stan" to see if you are ready to survive an earthquake
• Check out the learning resources and interactive game "Awesome Forces" on the Te Papa website
• Play the disaster simulation game

Library Resources

Using your school's EPIC membership you will be able to use the Australia New Reference Centre database. Using the search words earthquakes New Zealand gives articles that have appeared in our newspapers. Click in the Full text box (on the left hand side) to only get whole articles.

Other search words (tags) you could search with are:

• shakeout
• tsunami

For help using this and other EPIC databases, connect with free virtual help at Any Questions.

PDF documents: To view or print out PDF documents you will need the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Reader. This is available free from the Adobe website.