- Visual Glossary - pictures and videos of earthquake terms, by USGS
- Animation comparing earthquake magnitude and energy released - by oceanographer Nathan Becker at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
- Teachable Moments, short video lectures and demonstrations, animations, lesson plans - by IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology)
- Short article about the science of earthquakes - for students, teachers, and families, originally from the Green Frog News
- Series of one-page articles on Earthquake Science Explained - for students, teachers, and families, by USGS
- Movies of simulation of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake along the southernmost San Andreas fault (USGS Shakeout Earthquake Scenario)
- propagation of rupture and seismic waves
- ground shaking
- Caltech Seimological Laboratory - general education tools
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- Learn about earthquakes - for kids, teachers, and general public, by USGS
- Map of This Dynamic Planet - World Map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Impact Craters, and Plate Tectonics, by USGS
- Animations for Earth Sciences - from Educational Multimedia Visualization Center of the Department of Earth Science, UC Santa Barbara
- Geological Society of America, Education and Outreach
- includes short article on The Nature of Science and the Scientific Method
- Understanding Science - how science really works
- tools for teaching and learning
- UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology
- Classroom activities for Earth Science education - by Professor Larry Braile, Purdue University
- Interactive simulation of Plate Tectonics by PhET at the University of Colorado/Boulder
- Scale of the Universe - interactive simulation
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