Emergency Science – Surviving Natural Disasters

Name: Emergency Science – Surviving Natural Disasters
SKU: 51083
Price: 44.95 AUD
Availability: InStock
Author: Brenda Greene
ISBN: 9781776555444

The science behind earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis

By
Brenda Greene

The book connects science directly with natural disasters and demonstrates clearly how understanding emergency science concepts can literally save lives - quite possibly those of the students and their families - during an earthquake, volcanic eruption or tsunami. The wide range of hands-on activities covers Earth's layers, continental drift, tectonic plates, plate boundary divergence and convergence, heat transfer, real disasters, tides and moon phases, fossils and the rock cycle. Students are actively engaged as they explore scientific models based on observation and tested by evidence, and complete class-based resources.

Ages: 12-15 | Pages: 56 | Code: 51083 | ISBN: 9781776555444

Series: Emergency Science

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Brenda Greene

Brenda Greene gained an MSc from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and worked as a scientist, publishing papers on the genetics and conservation of New Zealand birds. She gained a Diploma in Teaching and Learning from Canterbury University, and taught science at the Orana Wildlife Park and in Christchurch secondary schools. She enjoys hands-on science, and is always inventing new experiments for her students to do.

Contents
Introduction	4
Overview of this book	4
Understanding Our Earth	5
Survivor	5
Earth's crust	8
Continental drift	11
Convection in a liquid	13
Convection in a gas	15
Conduction in a solid – experiments 1–5	16
Conduction in a solid – graph it	21
Radiation via atoms	22
Tectonic plates	23
Volcanoes	26
Making volcanoes	26
Ring of fire	28
Earthquakes	33
Rock it!	33
Fossils	35
Faults and folds	37
San Andreas and Adelaide faults	39
Measuring earthquakes	40
I have, who has?	44
Tsunamis	48
Investigating tsunamis	48
Tides	51
Selected answers	55