Earth Systems

Tsunami

Grades K-4

• Identifying and Locating Glaciers
• Let's Draw a Map
• Parts of a Map
• Treasure Hunt
• Let's Make a Time Capsule
• Tsunami Coming
• What Do We Take?
• Aleutian Legends
• Visual Aid: Legends
• Oral Traditions
• What's in a Name
• Visual Aids: All Characters, Watercolor Examples
• Introduction to Tsunami
• Height of Tsunami Runup
• A Wave of Sounds
  Visual Aid: A Wave of Sounds
• Looking for Clues
• Volcanoes and Tsunamis
  Visual Aid: Volcano Box
• Earthquakes and Tsunamis
  Visual Aid: Oceanic Plate Meets Continental Plate
• Landslide!
  
• Trigger Sort
• Alutiiq Disk Toss
  Visual Aid: Tossing Disks - Kakangat
• Speed of a Tsunami Wave
  Visual Aids: Tsunami Time Travel Map, Wave Patterns
• 1964: Learning, Family, and Sharing
• Tsunamis and Oceans
• What's on Your Plate?
• Pangaea Puzzle
• An Island Story
  Visual Aid: Bogoslof Island
• Island Mobile
  Visual Aids: St. Lawrence Island (Sivuqaq), Emerging Island
• Ghost Forest
  Visual Aid: Ghost Forest
• Stories in the Soil
• Erosion
• Aleutian Arc: Land and Sea
• Topography and Bathymetry
• Bottle O' Waves
• How Deep
• The Qayaq and the Iqyax
• Ocean Wave Sort
  Visual Aid: Wind Waves, Tsunami Waves and their Generators

Grades 5-8

• The Water Cycle's Impact on Surface Features
• Where Do I Fit?
• How is this Structure Used?
• Traditional Land Use
• Google Earth
• GPS - Using the Global Positioning System
• Ground Truthing
• Placemarks in Google Earth
• Adding Photos to Placemarks in Google Earth
• 1964 Tsunamis
• Tsunamis on the Air Waves
• Tsunami Sleuthing
• Tsunamis with a Latitude
  Visual Aids: Latitude Lines, Longitude Lines & International Time Zones
• Tsunamis in Literature and Legends
• Tsunami Sources
• Science and Tradition
• Tsunamis Around the World
• Tsunami Misconceptions
• Slinky Tsunamis
• Making Waves
• 2004 Wave Propogation
• Sweet Tsunami Soil
  Visual Aids: Tsunami Inundation Deposits & Soil Formation
• Salty Sea
• Sliding Plates
• Locating the Epicenter
• Volcano Scavenger Hunt
• Volcano Jigsaw
• How the Mighty Fall
  Visual Aids: Augustine Tsunami
• Finding Fairweather Fault
  Visual Aids: Lituya Bay, Tlingit Legends of Lituya, Major Active Faults in Alaska
• Tracking Down the Source
• Cultural Values and 1964
• Earth's Layers
  Visual Aid: Earth's Layers
• Convection Current
• Convection and Plate Motion
  Visual Aid: Convection and Plates
• Subduction Zones and Tsunamis
  Visual Aid: Subduction Zone Tsunamis
• Tsunami or Tidal Wave?
• Traditional Knowledge of Tides
• The Bottom of the Ocean
• Layers as Clues
  Visual Aids: Middle Bay Tsunami Deposit, Salmon River- Oregon
• Land and Water Features
• Built for Waves
• Seismic Waves
  Visual Aids: Body Wave, Surface Waves
• Speedy Tsunami
  Visual Aids: 1946 Tsunami Time Travel Map, Wave Characteristics and Speed

Grades 9-12

• Importing Waypoints into Google Earth: Mac / PC
• Visualizing Tsunami Runups with Google Earth
• Creating Graphs; Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
• Plate Tectonics Scavenger Hunt
  
• Plate Tectonics and Ecological Connections
  Visual Aids: Uplift and Subsidence, Uplift in 1964
• The Day that Cries Forever
  Visual Aid:Chinega After Good Friday, 1964
• Tsunami Mapping Task Force
  Visual Aids: Homer Tsunami Inundatin Map, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), Multibeam Swath Bathymetry
• Earthquake Energy
  Visual Aids: Common Magnitude Measures, Earthquake Frequency in Alaska
• Tsunami Speed
• Wave Behavior
  Visual Aid: Wave Behavior