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000010954 04107 $$aeng
000010954 046__ $$k2008-10-12
000010954 100__ $$aMendoza, Blanca
000010954 24500 $$aEarthquake Risk Education Module for High-School Students

000010954 24630 $$n14.$$pProceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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000010954 520__ $$2eng$$aEducation of young people about earthquakes and their effect on the society is an essential aspect of reduction of earthquake risk, particularly in urban areas where earthquakes are an inescapable fact of life. Simply put: the more is known about the hazard, the better our preparation for it is. This paper describes a lecture and a set of demonstrations prepared at the University of California Berkeley Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC) and the nees@berkeley George E. Brown NEES Equipment Site to educate middle- and high-school students about earthquakes. The lecture addresses the origins of earthquakes and mechanisms of fault rupture, as well as characteristics of ground shaking and its principal effects on structures. Furthermore, the lecture describes the principal means of making building structures more resistant to earthquakes. These ideas are used to entice students to construct structural models made of K’Nex toy construction components (www.knex.com). In a planned demonstration the students are asked to construct their own buildings in groups. Then, the constructed buildings are mounted on the instructional shaking table and tested to compare the response of the buildings to simulated earthquakes. These lectures and demonstrations have already been presented to several groups of high-school students visiting EERC and nees@berkeley. Evaluations completed by the students are used to evaluate the impact of the lectures and demonstrations. These results offer concrete evidence on the effectiveness of the developed curriculum.

000010954 540__ $$aText je chráněný podle autorského zákona č. 121/2000 Sb.
000010954 653__ $$aEarthquake engineering education, education modules, outreach to high-schools

000010954 7112_ $$a14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering$$cBejing (CN)$$d2008-10-12 / 2008-10-17$$gWCEE15
000010954 720__ $$aMendoza, Blanca$$iPerez, Michael$$iLangdon, Nathaniel$$iNelson, Nancy$$iStojadinovic, Bozidar$$iSitar, Nicholas
000010954 8560_ $$ffischerc@itam.cas.cz
000010954 8564_ $$s458204$$uhttps://invenio.itam.cas.cz/record/10954/files/09-01-0104.pdf$$yOriginal version of the author's contribution as presented on CD, Paper ID: 09-01-0104.
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