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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2016 Meeting
Section: Physics Education
Title:
Seismology in the classroom - a way to introduce fundamental concepts of earth science, physics, and mathematics
Authors:
Dragos TATARU (1), Bogdan ZAHARIA (1), Bogdan GRECU (1)
Affiliation:
1) National Institute for Earth Physics, Magurele, Romania
E-mail
dragos@infp.ro
Keywords:
earthquake, outreach, education, earth science, physics
Abstract:
All over the world educational seismology projects give schools the opportunity to detect signals from large earthquakes happening anywhere in the world. It starts from the natural interest and fascination for the destructive power of earthquakes, but easily the experiment became much more, growing from simple information to exposing fundamental concepts tested by practical experiments. In the framework of a national funded project (Romanian Educational Seismic Network), classroom activities that enable students to learn about some basic science concepts using seismology and earthquakes as a unifying theme have been developed in the last years [1]. Students are guided to use concepts such as energy transfer, wave properties and resonance in order to understand very simple models of the causes of earthquakes and their effects. Recording earthquakes also reveals others principles underlying their detection. All the educational materials developed in the framework of the project are gathered in a collection of booklets for all the educational levels with suggestions for teachers on how to introduce the ideas in classrooms, plus student activity sheets and notes for teachers [2]. The activities provide a context for students to use these concepts for the interpretation of seismic data recorded in their own schools using scientific instruments and specialized softwares. Trainings have been initiated and carried out by the project consortium with the aim of familiarizing teachers with presented concepts and testing together the activities that could be applied in schools with students. The initiative supports also the effort to increase students’ interest in pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics studies and careers.
References:
1. Tataru, D., et al., NEW SCIENCE EDUCATION INITIATIVE BRINGS SEISMOLOGY INTO CLASSROOM AND MUSEUMS, 15th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference (SGEM),, VOL III, pp. 973-980, 2015.
2. Tataru D., et al, Seismology in Romanian Schools: education, outreach, monitoring and research, Romanian Reports in Physics, 2016, in press
Acknowledgement:
This work was done in the framework of ROEDUSEIS project, ctr.no. 220/2012, Partnership 2011, financed by UEFISCDI
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