Assignments for the San Francisco Earthquake

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  Reading Assignment Internet Assignment Presentation Assignment
Days 1 & 2 ...If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake San Francisco Museum http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/06timeline.html Make a timeline of the events of the earthquake.
Days 3 & 4 Earthquake In The Early Morning
(Magic Tree House 24) 		View photos of the destruction from the Museum of the City of San Francisco http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/photos.html

NISEE  http://nisee.berkeley.edu/images/servlet
/EqiisSearch?last=2948&eq=san+francisco

Modeled Shaking Intensity Map for the Entire Bay Area Scenario: 1906 San Francisco Earthquake  http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/pickcity.html

San Francisco earthquake 1906 map of burned area  http://americahurrah.com/USGS/EQmap.htm

San Francisco earthquake 1906 index to photos and maps  http://americahurrah.com/USGS/Index.htm

 Print out your 10 favorite photographs from the websites to the left. Present them to the class. Arrange these as a scrapbook with captions under each photo.
Days 5 & 6 Earthquake!: A Story of Old San Francisco (Once upon America)
by Kathleen V. Kudlinski		 USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake Facts and Statistics  http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqstats.html

Create a Graph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/

Earthquakes - When the Big One Hits - Magnitude 8  http://rtb.home.texas.net/quakes.htm#chronology

 

 Person 1 - Take the information from USGS website's first chart entitled "Frequency of Occurrence of Earthquakes
Based on Observations since 1900" and  turn into a bar graph.

Other Students in the Group - At the website Earthquakes - When the Big One Hits - Magnitude 8,  use the chart "Chronology of Major US Quakes" to make graphs illustrating the following information:  deaths, damage in dollars, magnitude.
Days 7 & 8 Earthquake!: A Story of Old San Francisco (Once upon America)
by Kathleen V. Kudlinski		 Just for Fun

Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program-For Kids Only  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/

 Finish timeline, scrapbook, and graphs.