Shake, Rattle, and Roll

Shake, Rattle, and Roll

Read the Full Post Below  Shake, Rattle, and Roll Within the last few years, you’ve no doubt seen the devastation and destruction that can be caused by earthquakes. New Zealand, Haiti, Japan, China, Chile, and the Philippines are all places that have...
All Shook Up

All Shook Up

We’ve recently been learning all about the layers of Earth. We’ve talked a bit about the theory of plate tectonics and how most earthquakes usually happen along fault boundaries, the place where two tectonic plates meet. Just as we were wrapping up our...
Yellowstone National Park Field Trip

Yellowstone National Park Field Trip

So today we took a field trip to Yellowstone National Park. Ok, well, maybe not exactly. That would be quite a long trip to head out to Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. So instead, we had a park ranger come to us, through Skype. Mike Coonan was kind enough to take some...
Shaking Things Up

Shaking Things Up

Over the summer, something rare happened. The east coast of the United States had a pretty sizable earthquake! It happened pretty far away from us in Virginia but a few of us felt a little bit of shaking under our feet! In certain places in the world, earthquakes...