Does Your Class Have Questions About Earthquakes? Send Them Now
This is a feature from the NASA/JPL Education Office.
03.15.11 -- With Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami uppermost in peoples' minds, the Education Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is hosting a live video chat about earthquakes. We are seeking questions from students, preferably in grades 4 - 6, about earthquakes and how scientists study them. Please limit your questions to the topic of earthquakes.
Questions should be sent to jplspaceeducation@xxxxxxxxx. They must be received by Wed., Mar. 16, at 3 p.m. Pacific. Educators will be contacted if their student's question is selected for the program. Please note, we will make our best effort to answer all selected questions but due to time, there is no guarantee that all selected questions will be answered. Please include a class name or student first name with each question.
The 30-minute program will air on Friday, Mar. 18 at 10 a.m. Pacific. Classrooms and the general public can watch the program at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 . The program will also be archived on the same web page.
Our expert will be Greg Lyzenga, a JPL geophysicist and a Professor of Physics at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif. Greg studies earthquakes and how computer models may help understand how Earth responds to shifts in tectonic plates.
Our chats are fairly fast-paced to allow as many questions as possible. Please see an archive of a recent chat to see if this will work for your class: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12283600 .
To see a collection of space-based images that show the aftermath of the Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami, go to http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/japanquake/index.html.
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