BERENGUER , Jean-Luc

Many of our students at the Shanghai French Middle‐High School have been living in Asia for extended periods of time and have thus experienced an earthquake; this has fostered a curiosity among the students in regards to these phenomena. As such, the science faculty has aimed at using this natural interest and has had the students take part in...

Une des missions de l'école est de permettre aux élèves de mieux appréhender les sciences autrefois confinées dans les laboratoires scientifiques. Depuis une vingtaine d'années, un programme de sismologie éducative a été mis sur pied en France métropolitaine puis dans les Caraïbes. Le point innovant de ce programme est de permettre à des...

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On November 26, 2019, SEIS, the first broadband seismometer designed for the Martian environment (Lognonné et al., 2019) landed on Mars thanks to NASA's InSight mission. On April 6, 2019 (sol 128), the InSight Science team detected the first historical "marsquake" (NASA news release). Before it was recorded, the InSight Science team developed...

This chapter provides an overview of the last two decades' European experiences in educational seismology and describes the different contexts in which they have been developed. The basic idea of these educational projects is that seismology may represent an efficient communication vehicle for teaching a wide range of basic earth science topics...