Earthquake Awareness Day at the South Carolina State Museum
Visitors to the South Carolina State Museum Saturday, Nov. 7, will be able to discover the forces that cause earthquakes and have fun doing it.
The State Museum will partner with the College of Charleston to present Earthquake Awareness Day, a day of activities, earthquake history and education at the museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Scientists and educators from the College of Charleston’s Department of Geology will present activities for museum guests:
- Design a building and test it for stability
- Race against a seismic wave
- Register their own little earthquakes on a seismometer
- Participate in a fault line activity
- Hear mythological stories about earthquakes
- Participate in earthquake drills
- Color in earthquake-related coloring books for kids.
Activities are free with museum admission or membership. For more information, click here, call (803) 898-4952 or e-mail publicprograms@scmuseum.org
I have written a book called Earthquake! It received an honorable mention in the 2009 Green Book Festival.
Earthquake! is written for grades 2-4. The reviews seem to indicate older children would like it as well – (Probably because of all the factoids and charts.)
I have sent Earthquake! to both FEMA and USGS for review. Their comments are available on my website, http://www.susanjberger.com/Announcements.html
Earthquake! offer a very simplified explanation of what causes Earthquakes, It covers “Can we predict them?” “How do we prepare for them?” “What to do during an earthquake.” “What happens after a big earthquake? It includes many factoids and charts
Earthquake! was published as an EBook and a POD by Guardian Angel Publishing. (www.guardianangelpublishing.com)
This books is an excellent accompaniment to any Earthquake awareness program.