Assignment 3, Tsunamis

Essential Questions

1. What causes tsunamis?

2. What can be done to protect people in tsunami-prone areas?

3. What regions of the world experience tsunamis most often?

Description 

Tsunamis have had widespread devastating impacts around the Pacific Ocean throughout history. Through modern science and technology, many nations around the Pacific are working to provide better protection for people who live in areas where tsunamis occur. In this unit we are exploring the causes and effects of tsunamis as well as what can be done to protect people from their potentially  catastrophic consequences.

Objectives

Students will identify and explain the causes and effects of tsunamis.

Students will identify and explain what can be done to protect people around the Pacific and Indian Oceans from tsunami-related dangers.

Instructions

See the printed assignment.

Online Files for this Assignment

Click here to see the first video about tsunamis we viewed in class.

Click here for the second tsunami video

Click here for the third tsunami video.

For information about tsunamis, use the following links: NatGeo link one, NOAA's tsunami page, the Encyclopedia Britannica article about tsunamis. 

To view the PowerPoint about tsunamis we viewed in class, click here.

A printed copy of the assignment