Earthquake - Evangeliki School of Smyrna

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Teacher: Gregory Milopoulos

No of students participated: 8

Subject domain: Science, Forces and motion, Solids, liquids and gases, Waves, Gadgets, ICT tools, Benefits & problems, Simple networking, Storage devices, Understanding of hardware and software, Interpreting information, Reading for information, Search, ICT in society, Reviewing and reflecting critically on what people produce using ICT, Select and use ICT tools and techniques appropriately, safely and efficiently, Collaboration, Digital citizens, Information literacy, Research a problem using ICT, Use text, tables, images and sound to develop ideas, Technology

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Taking incentive from their participation for the European Parliament of Science, a group of students from the "European Pathways of Knowledge of Sciences" Group of the General Lyceum of the Evangelical School of Smyrna in Athens decided to deal with the study of the natural phenomenon of earthquakes.

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Ms Panagiota Argyri with the students of that compose the two teams that studied earthquakes

Their professor, Ms. Panagiota Argygi, through the collective exploration and the interdisciplinary approach of the subject, applied School Seismology practices and inspired two groups of students to participate in the “Create Your Own Seismograph“ (http://seismografos.ea.gr) contest, with impressive results.

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Seismology allows teachers to introduce not only the fundamental concepts of earth science, physics, and mathematics but puts them in the context of real-world problems; it allows students to apply advanced technology for data collection, access, analysis, and visualization; and lends itself to critical thinking and problem solving.

Theoretical Preparation

Within the classroom, students took the role of researchers and reproduced simulations and experiments to understand the physical phenomenon: what is an earthquake, how it is generated, the seismic waves and related laws of Physics. Through simple structures they learned about seismicity:

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This video shows their experiment on seismic waves:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HxC8CM61SXXT7gHp7VRc_k4ytGXdEs4x

At the same time, students also studied the importance of the existing network of school seismometers in Greece and realized the benefits of further networking and interconnection of the produced seismographic data.

Students also performed bibliographic and journalistic research, aiming to study existing and propose new decision-making policies on the very important issue of preventing and dealing with earthquakes and their consequences at national and pan-European level. Here is a video of the first gathering of the students’ team:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1plE2Swna7p9SDa_o1TzyiazDP5xtUhek/view

The project logo was created:

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Technical Preparation (I)

It was decided that two hardware devices will be designed and produced:

The first one was based on Arduino, combined with an accelometer and attached to a laptop running a software, written on Python and converting the seismic waves to graphical representations.

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The two young reasearched which designed the first seismometer

Here is a video of the two students that began working on the first technical solution:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rzDoViH2hv-s09wN-wQA22dkxxdDAOKd

Technical Preparation (II)

The second device was based on simpler materials and it is able to record on paper the movement of a pen set with elastic material in equilibrium inside a simple box of shoes!

This is the team of students which worked on it:

Here is a video of the two students that began working on the second technical solution:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1723DNDxT2whGkS42mOFDfiqKSbpgkLIT

Earthquake - Evangeliki School of Smyrna

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