NHERI EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Lesson Plans and Resources for Educators

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K-12 Programs & Resources

The NSF-funded NHERI Network is a distributed network across 11 institutions. The NHERI Network hosts educational programming and offers educational resources through the network’s Education and Community Outreach (ECO) division. Each NHERI site also has institutional educational resources and programming for K-12 educators and students.

LESSON PLANS

Elementary School

K-3 Mountains and Sedimentary Rock (NEES)
K-3 South America and Africa Puzzle (NEES)
K-5 Earthquake Engineering Modules (NEES)
3-5 Shapes & Building Structures to Resist Earthquakes (REU 2021)
3-5 Interdisciplinary Problem Solving (REU 2021)
4-5 Liquefaction Activity (NHERI@UTexas Mobile Shakers)
4-5 Earthquake Waves (NEES)
4-5 Earthquake Waves and Propagation (NEES)
4-5 Fault Slip (NEES)

Middle School

6-8 Wave Movement (REU 2021)
6-8 Soil Natural Hazards (REU 2021)
6-8 Soil Properties (REU 2022)
6-8 Form Drag (REU 2022)
6-8 Natural Hazard Reconnaissance (REU 2022)
6-8 Earthquake Engineering Modules (NEES)
6-8 Base Isolation (NEES)
6 Earthquake Resistant Structures (NEES)
6-8 Masses on Rods (NEES)
6-8 Slinky Waves (NEES)
6-8 What are Earthquakes (NEES)

High School

9-12 Dampers and Real Time Hybrid Simulation (REU 2021)
9-12 Wave Interaction (REU 2022)
9-12 Earthquake Engineering Modules (NEES)
9-12 Convection Currents and Tectonic Plates (NEES)
9-12 What is a Seismometer? (NEES)

OUTREACH

High School

10-12 Code@TACC Connected (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
10-12 Code@TACC Cybersecurity (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
10-12 Code@TACC Robotics (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
9-12 Wall of Wind Challenge (Florida International University)

TEACHER OPPORTUNITIES

High School

Natural Hazards Summer Training Institute for Title 1 Teachers (The University of Florida)

Below are links to the educational resources and programming of the NSF NHERI Education and Community Outreach for undergraduates, graduate students, and early-career faculty.

NHERI Research Experiences for Undergraduates — The NHERI REU Summer Program provides research opportunities at the ten NHERI multi-hazard engineering and interdisciplinary research sites during a 10-week summer research program.
NHERI Graduate Student Council — The NHERI Graduate Student Council offers graduate students interested in natural hazards research a chance to connect with other like-minded students while building a network in the natural hazards field.
NHERI Summer Institute — The NHERI Summer Institute is a free event for early-career faculty, NHERI Graduate Student Council, K-12 educators from the San Antonio area, engineers, and researchers to learn more about the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) community, NSF grant proposal writing, and more.

Contact Us

The Education and Community Outreach (ECO) and the ECO Committee develop and host the various NHERI network educational programming. If you have questions concerning educational programming across the NHERI network, please email us at reu-request@designsafe-ci.org. We will be happy to help!