2/ There's the Earthquake Machine, a little block-and-slider widget that students can use to discover how hard it is to predict earthquakes. Video intro and online spreadsheet available: csun.edu/quake/eqmachin…
3/ Earthquake early warning simulator. Students design their own early warning network and test it out. Scroll to the bottom of the page for teaching resources.
csun.edu/quake/warning.…
csun.edu/quake/warning.…
4/ Earthquake hazards jigsaw. Students use online discussion forums to teach one another about different earthquake hazards. They then have to come to consensus about which property to purchase in the San Fernando Valley. csun.edu/quake/scenario…
5/ Fracking Simulator. A choose-your-own adventure widget where students learn the stages that go into fracking. csun.edu/quake/frack/le…
6/ If you read down this far... You can read a whole article on how we did our online course:
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
7/ And if you really read down this far, you should look at our research findings that show the importance of human interaction in online geoscience learning:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
8/ A groundwater flow widget. Students use their knowledge of water table head elevations to track down the source of a pollutant in "Matador City". zadok.org/water/lesson.h…
9/ An oil drilling widget. Students drill down and select the right location to extract oil. zadok.org/oil/lesson.html
