With the tsunami today/last night in Japan, I thought I would share a couple of resources for you folks.
The first is a downloadable interactive from edumedia sciences: It is a free simulation that you can download. You can also drag it into a notebook file (it is a flash object). They make you install a program called ebox to download it, but you can also just run it from the website. It is a pretty good little interactive to describe how and earthquake leads to a tsunami
http://www.edumedia-sciences.com/en/a98-tsunami
The other resource is a free brainpop (my all-time favorite educational website) video on tsunamis found here. They usually make current event videos free so this will be a good way to help students understand how the earthquake in Japan caused so much damage.
Here is the brainpop: http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/tsunami/
Hopefully these will help you if you have the chance to teach about this event.
Jim Haynes
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Thanks for posting this. I will definitely use these resources with my students!!
Thanks for the great resources to use with science. Both sites offer applicable information on a local and global level!
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