Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Minority Scientist Project
Objective: Each student will research and prepare a project that shows critical
information about a specific Earthquake event, a Volcano eruption and a biography of a
minority scientist. This project is designed to make each student familiar with the
research process and learning more about seismic activities. The minority scientist piece
is in observation of Black history month.
Each student is to gather the following information and include it in their project.
Earthquakes: Where did it happen? When? How much damage was caused? What
fault line is responsible for the Earthquake? Was there any loss of life? Of course you
may include any pertinent information to your topic. Pictures?
Volcanoes: Where did it take place? How long was the volcano dormant before it
erupted? How much damage did it cause? Was the eruption expected? How many lives
were lost? What permanent damage did it do? You may include any information
pertinent to your topic. Pictures?
Minority Scientist: A biographical history of the scientist. What was he/she famous
for? What significant scientific discovery/work did they do? What shaped the scientist’s
character? You may include any pertinent information about your scientist. Pictures?
Inventions?
Guidelines: 1) ALL SOURCES MUST BE CITED!
2) ALL INFORMATION ACCURATE AND COMPLETE!
3) BE NEAT!
4) PROJECT MUST BE QUALITY, COMPLETE AND
CREATIVE!
*Here is a list of options you may choose from for your project: CHOOSE 1
1) Brochures- Either 1 brochure on each topic or a brochure that covers all of the
topics.
2) Newspaper- Design a newspaper to provide information about an Earthquake,
Volcano eruption and your minority scientist.
3) Magazine- Design a magazine that provides the information about your topics.
4) PowerPoint- Design a PowerPoint to show the information on your topics. The
PowerPoint must contain 20slides and include only 5 picture slides.
5) Shadow Boxes- Design shadow boxes/dioramas that provide a scene from your
earthquake or volcano and minority scientist (1 for each)
6) Glogster- Design 3 separate Glogsters (one for each topic) Glogsters must
include information, links, pictures, etc.
7) Tri-fold Poster- Use one of the science tri-fold presentations boards and design a
presentation poster that shows your information on the three topics.
*****PROJECT IS DUE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15th!*****