TO Outreach Materials

Resources for Outreach

Local 6th graders tour the TO
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Here is a list of outreach activities students have done, including materials, descriptions and “lessons learned.”

Please feel free to use these materials for your outreach activity; however, they may contain copyrighted material and so are not for distribution.

Please read: Tips on communicating science to kids

Science Topics by Grade Level:

Type of Activity	Level
Visits to Classrooms	2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, high school
Partnering with Teachers	6th grade
Family Science Nights	elementary and middle schools
Field Trips to Eaton Canyon	4th, 6th and high school, elementary school teachers
Judging Science Fairs	elementary and middle schools
Judging Science Olympiad Tournaments	elementary and middle schools
Leading Tours of TO	4th and 6th grades, middle and high school
Teacher Conferences	college and high school teachers
Teacher Workshops	6th grade teachers; artists in Armory's CIE Program
Research Mentoring	high school students and teachers
Speed Networking	high school students
Hosting Caltech Outreach Events	school groups and families
Video Games	middle school and high school

Teaching Materials (On-line or in 303 N. Mudd)

Hiroo Kanamori's outreach slides on "Modern Seismology and Hazard Mitigation" (ppt file)
Origin of the Rocks of the Grand Canyon: A Sandbox Demonstration - video (3 minutes)
Documentary film about science on the Tibetan Plateau (with Farley)
Historical Earthquakes - on-line lessons for undergraduate students that use actual coral data from Sumatra to reveal the occurance of past earthquakes

"This Dynamic Planet" -poster from USGS

Fault Model Blocks
Earthquake machine
Southern California plate deformation over the last 18 million years - cardboard model
Sandbox Experiment
Grand Canyon Sandbox
Magnifiers
Book "365 Science Experiments"
6th grade text books
Pens with TO logo
Silly putty and Cornstarch
Playdoh

Sites with Outreach Material

SCEC - simulation of "The Big One"
- Propagation
- View from the ground
IRIS - seismic tomography animation, teachable moments lesson plans, ...
Berkeley - The story behind the science
Carleton - SCERC (Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College)
Quake-Catcher Network - sign up to turn your laptop's sensor into an earthquake monitor; site has lesson plans
Seismac - turns a mac into a seismometer, can be used with our earthquake machine - best if they are touching
Written in Stone Earthquake Animations - by UCSD
USGS info on California - nice maps
Windows to the Universe - UCAR