Distribute work-sheet pages to students. Give a brief overview of the site. Have students skim-read the work sheets to get the general picture of the requirements of the simulation. Answer student questions. Take the students to the computer lab and log-on to the web site.
Students work through the activity and fill out the worksheets.
In the location bar of your browser, type the following address, or find the virtual earthquake site in the bookmarks, which ever one your instructor requests. Read the paragraphs explaining what you will be doing in this activity. Please note that you must make your measurements very carefully to receive a certificate at the end of the activity. Here is a list of vocabulary that you need to define as you go through the pages of this activity. You will not get all of the definitions from the first page.