Legacy NEES K-12
Learning Materials
Source: NEES
Learning Object |
Grade Level |
Materials |
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Make Your Own Earthquake: Earthquake Resistant Structure Using Wood Blocks |
K-12 |
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Demonstrating Frequency using a "Lollipop Model" |
K-12 |
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Natural Frequency: Masses on Rods |
K-12 |
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Base Isolation |
6-12 |
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NEES Teaching Demonstration: Soil Liquefaction |
K-12 |
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Understanding How Earthquakes Affect the Built Environment (5 Days) |
K-12 |
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Build your own Shake Table Multi-media |
K-12 |
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Slinky Waves |
9-12 |
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What are Earthquakes? |
K-12 |
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Structures Learning Module |
9-12 |
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Understanding and Improving the Seismic Behavior of Pile Foundations in Soft Clays |
6-8 |
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Understanding Natural Frequency: Masses on Rods |
K-12 |
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Earthquakes and Architecture |
K-12 |
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Best Practices in Developing Education, Outreach and Training Videos to Communicate NEES Research Findings |
K-12 |
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NEES Teaching Demonstration: Earthquake-proof K'nex Buildings |
K-6 |
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NEES Teaching Demonstration: Shake Table Assembly |
K-6 |
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Jeopardy Powerpoint |
K-12 |
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11th Grade Introduction to NEES |
K-12 |
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Survive That Wave! |
K-12 |
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Elementary School Presentation - Plate Tectonics, Seismology and Earthquakes |
K-6 |
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High School Presentation - Earthquakes and Seismology |
9-12 |
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Middle School Presentation - Plate Tectonics, Seismology and Earthquakes |
6-8 |
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Fault Slip |
4-5 |
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Earthquake Waves |
K-6 |
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Earthquake Waves and Propagation Through a Surface |
K-6 |
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Earthquake Epicenter |
6-12 |
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Convection Current and Tetonic Plates |
K-12 |
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South America and Africa Puzzle |
K-12 |
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Food Fault Lines (s'mores and more) |
K-12 |
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Mountains and Sedimentary Rock |
K-12 |
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Fault Slip |
6-8 |
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Fault Slip |
9-12 |
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Shake Things Up! |
K-12 |
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Everything Important About Earthquakes (And Other Assorted Information) |
K-6 |
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Make Your Own Earthquake: INTRO & BACKGROUND |
K-12 |
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Make Your Own Earthquake: The Accelerometer |
K-12 |
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Earthquake Engineering Modules for K-12 Learning |
K-12 |
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Tsunami in a Sweater Box |
K-6 |
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Become an Engineer |
K-12 |
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Build a Classroom Wave Tank |
K-12 |
Source: Teach Engineering
Learning Object |
Grade Level |
Materials |
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Swinging with Style |
2-4 |
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Mercalli Scale Illustrated |
3-4 |
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Build an Approximate Scale Model of an Object |
3-5 |
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Choosing a Pyramid Site |
3-5 |
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Earthquake in the Classroom |
3-5 |
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Engineering for the Three Little Pigs |
3-5 |
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Magnitude of the Richter Scale |
3-5 |
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Make Some Waves |
3-5 |
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Save Our City |
3-5 |
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Seismology in the Classroom |
3-5 |
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Survive that Tsunami |
3-5 |
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The Universal Language of Engineering |
3-5 |
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A Child's View of Earthquake Facts and Feelings |
K-6 |
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Feel the Stress |
6-10 |
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Balsa Towers |
6-8 |
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Bend That Bar |
6-8 |
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Breaking the Mold |
6-8 |
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Bridge Types: Tension and Compression |
6-8 |
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Build an Earthquake City |
6-8 |
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Construct the Strongest Bridge |
6-8 |
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Constructing Earthquake-Proof Buildings |
6-8 |
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Cost Comparisons |
6-8 |
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Do as the Romans: Construct an Aqueduct |
6-8 |
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Glue Stick Activity |
6-8 |
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Load It Up |
6-8 |
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Newspaper Tower |
6-8 |
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Straw Bridges |
6-8 |
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Testing Fundamental Loads |
6-8 |
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Sliding and Stuttering |
6-9 |
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Spaghetti Bridge |
6-9 |
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Stop the Stretching |
6-9 |
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Breaking Beams |
7-9 |
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Close Enough |
7-9 |
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Leaning Tower of Pasta |
7-9 |
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Swing in Time |
7-9 |
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Design Step 1: Identify the Need |
9-12 |
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Design Step 2: Research the Problem |
9-12 |
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Design Step 3: Brainstorm Possible Solutions |
9-12 |
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Design Step 4: Engineering Analysis |
9-12 |
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Design Step 5: Construct a Prototype |
9-12 |
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Design Step 6: Evaluate/Manufacture a Final Product |
9-12 |