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Karla Hodgson
& Mary Giles
Rules
Setup:
• One player builds the tower on a flat, sturdy
surface by using the loading tray as shown
below. Place three blocks in each layer, at
right angles to the previous layer. When you
finish you'll have a solid, 18-story tower that
can more than double during play!
Rules
Play:
• The player who built the tower goes first.
Play then continues to the left.
2. On your turn, carefully remove a block
from anywhere BELOW the highest
completed story Then stack it on top of the
tower, at right angles to the blocks just below
it.
Rules
Removing and Stacking Blocks:
• Remove and stack one block per turn. To remove a block,
use one hand at a time. You can switch hands whenever you
wish.
• As play proceeds and the weight of the tower shifts, some
blocks become looser than others and are easier to remove.
You can touch other blocks to find a loose one - but if you
move a block out of place, you must fix it (using one hand
only) before touching another block.
• While stacking, always complete one 3 - block story before
starting a higher one.
• Your turn ends 10 seconds after you stack your block-or as
soon as the player to your left touches a block.
Rules
• Once you pull a block successfully, you must answer the
question on your block.
• If you answer the question successfully, you may keep your
block.
• If you answer the question wrong, you must place the block
back on top.
• If you pull a block with nothing written on it, you get a free
turn!
• If you pull out a block with one word on it, you must give the
definition for the term.
• The player with the most blocks, when the tower falls over,
wins!
Rules
Each block is written in red, purple, blue and
green and is matched in the same color on the
answer key.
Be sure to check the answer key for the
correct answer.
EARTHQUAKE!
Instead of yelling “JENGA” when the tower
falls over, you have to yell
“EARTHQUAKE”
EARTHQUAKE TERMS
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1) Amplitude The amplitude is the size of the wiggles on an earthquake recording.
2) Displacement is the difference between the initial position of a reference point and any later
position.
3) Earthquake is a term used to describe both sudden slip on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking
and radiated seismic energy.
4) Epicenter is the point on the earth's surface vertically above the hypocenter (or focus), point in the
crust where a seismic rupture begins.
5) Fault is a fracture along which the blocks of crust on either side have moved relative to one another
parallel to the fracture.
6) Foreshocks smaller earthquakes that precede the largest earthquake in a series, which is termed the
main shock. Not all main shocks have foreshocks.
7) Ground motion is the movement of the earth's surface from earthquakes or explosions.
8) Intensity is a number describing the severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's
surface.
9) Magnitude is a number that characterizes the relative size of an earthquake
10) Mainshock is the largest earthquake in a sequence
11) P wave is a seismic body wave that shakes the ground back and forth in the same direction.
12) Richter scale is a mathematical device to compare the size of earthquakes
13) S wave is a seismic body wave that shakes the ground back and forth perpendicular to the direction
the wave is moving.
14) Tectonic plates are the large, thin, rigid plates that move relative to one another on the outer
surface of the Earth.
15) Wavelength is the distance between successive points of equal amplitude and phase on a wave
Fact or Fiction?
16) We can always tell where an earthquake has occurred because we can see the ground on the surface
that has moved. FICTION
17) If an earthquake is a magnitude 7 event, it has that intensity, or strength. FICTION
18) The most shaking in earthquakes occurs next to the epicenter FICTION
19) There are many thousands of earthquakes every year on Earth. FACT
20) Earthquakes are easily predicted. FICTION
21) Some seismic shock waves travel faster than the speed of sound. FACT
22) Several earthquakes have killed more than 100,000 people at one time. FACT
23) Plate motions cause earthquakes FACT
24) Tsunamis are often secondary effects of large earthquakes FACT
25) Following large earthquakes, fires often break out. FACT
26) Earthquakes with a Richter magnitude less than eight are usually not felt by humans FICTION
27) No reliable method of short-range earthquake prediction has yet been devised. FICTION
28) Most earthquakes occur along faults associated with plate boundaries FACT
29) P waves arrive at a recording station after S waves FICTION
30) Earth's inner core is a solid metallic sphere FACT
General Curriculum outcomes
1) Time continuity and change
Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of
the past and how it affects the present and the future
How do Earthquakes affect humans and the environment
2) People place and the environment
Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of
the interactions among people, places and the environment
Interactions between Earthquakes, people and places
Key-stage curriculum outcomes
People place and the environment
Use geographic tools, technologies , and representations to interpret,
pose, and answer questions about natural and human systems
Use location, distance, scale, direction, density, shape, and size to describe
and explain the location and distribution parterres of physical
phenomena
Ask complex geographic questions; acquire, organize, and analyze
geographic information; and answer geographic questions.
Time, Continuity, and change
Identify and analyze trends that may shape the future
Identify and use concepts associated with time, continuity and change
Specific Curriculum Outcomes
• Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation
of earthquakes and their common terms.
• Skills used will be: problem solving, communicating,
and generating an overall more accurate
understanding of earthquakes.
• Demonstrate a willingness to participate and work
well with peers
Processes
Communication
Employ active listening techniques
use various forms of group and interpersonal communication, such as
debating, negotiation, establishing consensus, clarifying and mediating
conflict
Inquiry
Students should have a number of additional questions about earthquakes.
Students will become more inquisitive about the natural disasters and
look forward to the upcoming lessons.
Participation
Function in a Varity of groupings, using collaborative and cooperative skills
and strategies.
Engage in a variety of learning activities that include collaboration
Rational
The Earthquake Jenga game is to be played at the
end of the natural disasters unit, more specifically
the earthquake section. The game is a great way to
review the earthquake terms and concepts before a
quiz or test. The students will have fun and work
together while learning. This game will reach a
variety of learning styles including visual, auditory
and kinesthetic learners. The game is designed to
meet the GCO’s, KSCO’s and SCOS’s from
the grade 7 geography curriculum.