RMIT+EARTH+SCIENCE

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Hi Grade 5/6,

Welcome to our Wiki page!

We are all very impressed with how you have all been so willing to engage in the different activities that we have brought into your classroom over the past three weeks. Thank you!

We would like to now share some of the links that we have discovered during this journey. We believe that they may offer you the opportunity to explore particular things that you may be interested in.

Some of you have asked some very interesting questions or expressed a wish to know more about certain things. This page will try to offer you some places to go that may help you to answer those queries.

Here are the videos we watched about Plate tectonics

media type="file" key="1ess05_vid_wegener1_350.mp4" width="300" height="300" Information about Alfred Wegener.



media type="file" key="2ess05_vid_plateintro_300.mov" width="308" height="308"  Information on the theory of Plate Tectonics

media type="file" key="3ess05_vid_wegener2_450.mp4" width="300" height="300" More information on Plate Tectonics

Some useful Links

Geoscience Australia - Natural Hazards - This site has a lot of valuable information about many Natural disasters so don't be afraid to explore. You may find some more complex information here.

Earth like a puzzle This website is very cool. Lots of info about Earth and its layers and Tectonic plates. It may help you to make sense of it all.

ABC - Hardcore Planet This site features a quiz at the end... Test your knowledge.

National Geographic - Natural disasters Photo Gallery - This website features images of different disasters, if you explore further you can also find out a lot of useful information about the wonders of the Earth that we live on.

Tectonics Investigator - Prepare to be challenged by this interactive quiz. Investigating tectonic plates and seismic waves. Find out more if you dare...

Australian Museum - This site contains more detailed explanations of Tectonic processes and the Earths structure.

Some pics - Making and learning about the Earth in the library.





Animation of the break up of the Pangaea This link shows you a visualisation of how scientist believe the continents have changed over millions of years.

Some Experiments you can do

Make your own Seismometer

Build your own volcano models

Grade 5/6,
==Thanks for having us over the past 5 weeks. We hope that you enjoyed it as much as we have. We would like to leave you with some photos from our journey. We were very impressed with your presentations. The detailed information that you provided proved that you have researched further and improved your knowledge regarding our great Earth and how its interior movements can cause natural disasters on the surface. Great work! Good luck with the rest of your studies and we wish you all the very best.==

Some pics from Week 4 - starting work on the presentations...







Sorry for the delay everyone! Finally.... the pics from our final presentation day... What a great day! Thanks again and good luck for the rest of the year.