Tectonically Speaking Project 10/26












Summary
  • In this project my group and I were asked to prove or disprove if we were going to have an 10.0 earthquake November 17, 2016. I learned more about the Richter Scale, for example, each size of magnitude is ten times larger than the previous one. A 10.0 earthquake can cause very severe damage to many communities and cities. While doing research I discovered that the Great San Francisco 8.0 earthquake was felt all the way to southern Oregon. During this project I found out that the largest earthquake ever recorded was a 9.5 earthquake in Valdivia, Chile. The size of the fault line that an earthquake occurs on has a big impact on the magnitude of the earthquake. Along with all this information I learned that we have small earthquakes that are 2.0 lower everyday. This project has given me a lot more knowledge about earthquakes.
Backward-Looking:
  • I knew quite a bit about earthquakes before the project considering all the time we spent learning about it, though I still learned so much about earthquakes during this project. I knew the different ways earthquakes were caused, strike-slip faults, dip-slip normal, reverse dip-slips and oblique slips. The Richter scale is something I knew about, all the levels of magnitude, but I didn't know each one is ten times more destructive than the last. Something that I knew before the project was how bad the Great San Francisco earthquake was (I learned about it in history in the fourth grade). I knew that no one knows exactly when an earthquake would occur, but we could predict based off of previous earthquakes. This is some of the information I knew before the project, but the project thought me a lot.
Inward-Looking:
  • I am really proud of my work on this project and it was awesome having a great group to work with. I feel like this project really shows some of my best work and I am so happy with it. I really enjoyed presenting our findings to the class and teaching them more about earthquakes and faults. I enjoyed presenting because I liked seeing the class' reaction to the information we were telling them. I didn't really dislike anything, but if I had to chose something it wouldn't be dislike it would be more of the hardest part.The hardest part was coming up with questions to research that would provide us with good information. We had to revise some of our questions to get information that would be more useful to us and when we did it was much easier. I really liked how we were using the information as evidence in a persuasive piece. Technically it included some techniques of what we are learning in ELA which was cool.
Outward-Looking:
  • I would give my Tectonically Speaking project an A. I would give my project an A because my group and I checked it against the rubric and then revised a few things until we all agreed that the project would receive mastery. As well as that, I personally feel that our presentation was very informative, not only to the audience, but to me too. No misspelled words or grammar issues add into account of me choosing this grade. The four of us showed we can explain earthquakes quite well by using pictures to help the audience get a better understanding of large earthquakes and their destruction. The practice we got from exhibition night was great. We got amazing reviews which makes me think that my group and I will get an A. I feel like my project will get an A because we gave it our all.
Forward-Looking:
  • If I got the chance to do this project again I would change two things. First of all, I would add more information giving people a better visualization of the San Andreas fault. It would include things like, how many earthquakes have happened on this fault, what was the magnitude and how many other cities were effected. Those are just small things that would have given a little more information; I thought we had a lot of information thoguh. Another thing I would have done is add more humor into our presentation. I think a little bit of humor along with interesting information really grabs the audiences attention and encourages them to listen. Humor would be a small detail I wish we had more of, even though we had a little bit. Overall I was very proud of this project, even though there are a few things I would change if we had the chance to do it again.

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