Secondary Teacher Professional Learning Session: Plate Tectonic Misconceptions Part 2
Channel: GeoscienceAustralia
Date: 2021-04-16

This video is a recording of an online secondary teacher professional learning session, delivered by Geoscience Australia’s Education Team.
This session of “Can I Fall Down the Cracks?” focused on common misconceptions that are encountered when teaching hazards associated with plate tectonics. The student misconceptions addressed are:

00:00  Start
3:15    1. Earthquakes are measured using the Richter scale                                
7:20    2. The magnitude of an earthquake depends on how far away it is           
10:52  3. Earthquakes can be predicted 
                                                             
This section includes a description of Raspberry Shake equipment: low cost
earthquake monitoring for the classroom

18:25  4. There are no volcanoes in Australia                                                      
24:17  5. You can surf a tsunami                                                                         

51 minutes total duration, with Q&A with an expert scientist starting at 37:00 minutes.