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Earthquake Epicenter
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ORC# 3120
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Resource URL: http://pals.sri.com/tasks/5-8/EarthEpicenter/
Resource Type: Assessments
Discipline: Science
Grades: Grades 5–8
Professional Commentary: Students use chart data to determine the location of the epicenter of an earthquake. This task assesses students' abilities to generalize and infer, organize data, interpret data, and apply mathematical concepts....
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NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Triangulation to epicenter
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ORC# 7290
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Resource URL: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/itmrls/portal.asp?questionl...
Resource Type: Assessments
Discipline: Science
Grades: Grades 9–10
Professional Commentary: Students are asked to explain, with the aid of a diagram, why it is necessary to obtain information from three different seismograph sites to locate the epicenter of an earthquake. This multiple choice/constructed response question is a sample test item used in past National Assessments of Educational Progress (see About NAEP)....
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What happens when plates collide with each other? (Earthquakes)
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ORC# 10421
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Resource URL: http://www.ohiorc.org/pm/science/sciShowSubInquiry.aspx?sid=33
Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Science
Grades: Grades 9–10
Professional Commentary: In order to answer the critical question, "What happens when plates collide with each other?" students plot earthquakes that have occurred on a world physical map, explore a lesson on plate tectonics and plot an earthquake epicenter via triangulation.  "What happens when plates collide with each other?" is one of five critical questions designed to help students answer...
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Catching the Drift
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ORC# 10417
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Resource URL: http://www.ohiorc.org/pm/science/sciShowInquiry.aspx?cid=7
Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Science
Grades: Grades 9–10
Professional Commentary: This inquiry asks the essential question, "Am I really living on a moving plate?" Students build scientific knowledge and process skills as they work to answer the five related critical questions. Each critical question addresses a different aspect of the essential question....
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