Inside the Earth with Earthquakes

Seismometers and Our Understanding of the Earth

Raymond Neal, St. Patrick’s College, Kilbirnie, Wellington

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Science in the New Zealand Curriculum:
Making Sense of the Nature of Science and its Relationship to Technology.

Level 6 A.O. 2: describe how technology has contributed to, and at times helped change, scientific ideas.

Teaching Outline:

Seismometers record earthquake waves.
There are two main types of seismometers; vertical motion & horizontal motion.

Draw the vertical motion seismometer or the horizontal motion seismometer and write an explanation of how it works.

Fast and Slow Places – Sound wave speeds in air and in the ground.