Description
Add this no-prep lesson to your earthquake lesson plans! This is a great earthquake lesson activity for your middle school students. This interactive lesson focuses on guiding your students through the lesson while reducing cognitive load, ultimately remember things and keeping it in their long-term memory!
Skip the earthquakes worksheet and try this. Oh, and they are fun to do!
A paper version and a digital version is included.
Earthquakes Lesson/Activity Covers:
- what causes earthquakes
- plate tectonics
- lithosphere
- what plates are
- how plates move
- compressional stress, shear stress, tensional stress
- faults
- seismic waves
- focus and epicenter
- primary waves, secondary waves, surface waves
- tsunamis
- Ring of Fire
- Seismograph
- Moment Magnitude Scale
Earthquakes Interactive Activities Include:
- KWL
- drag-and-drop
- exploring outside resources
- Venn diagram
- and more!
There are 36 slides in all and an answer key is included.
This lesson pairs well with NC Essential Standard: 6.E.2.2
When you purchase this product, you will be given access to a link that will allow you to open the file that is compatible with Google Slides™. You will then be able to share this with your students. If you’d like, there is a PPT version as well!









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