Tsunami Shelter Challenge

Materials and Handouts

 

Introductory Packet


Curriculum

  • Introduction to Tsunamis
  • Can we design a town to minimize damage from a Tsunami?
    • Can a town be safely evacuated?
    • What is a vertical evacuation?
  • Engineering for Strength
  • Introduction to CAD
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
    • What is it and what can it do for me?
    • Scientific Visualization
  • Designing a Shelter
  • Tsunami Shelter Simulator - Building and Testing an Evacuation Shelter
  • Introduction to Web page design
  • Building a scale model of the shelter

Teacher Developed Classroom Plans