BC-ESP Curriculum and Laboratory Exercises

About the BC-ESP Curriculum

Click on the links below for descriptions of the exercises and to download files used in the exercises.

1. Build Your Own Seismograph

2. Exploring What Your AS1 Seismograph Records

Magnitude Primer
AS1 Examples
AS1 Examples (Answers)

3. Earthquake Tracking

Excel Spreadsheet for Plotting Epicenters

4. Recording Sensitivity of Your AS1 Seismograph for Earthquakes of Different Magnitudes and Distances

Excel Spreadsheet (BC Results)
Excel Spreadsheet for Plotting Data
AS1 Examples (Answers)

5. Locating Earthquake Epicenters

Earthquake Location Exercise from "Spinet"
NESN Stations
Seismograms of Earthquake #1
Seismograms of Earthquake #2
More Seismograms of Earthquake #2

6. Scale Model of Earth's Interior

Temperature in Earth's Interior

7. Earthquakes Within Reach: Classroom Mechanical Fault Model

Data Sheets

8. Student Projects and Presentations