Teachers convey faulty quake lessons.If many students across America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what causes earthquakes, the reason may lie in their teachers. So suggests a study reported last week. Katharyn E. K. Ross Ross , Sir Ronald 1857-1932. British physician. He won a 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that malaria is transmitted to humans by the bite of the mosquito. and Andrea S. Dargush of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering earthquake engineer n. A civil engineer specializing in earthquake-resistant design and construction and in the study of the effects of seismic activity on fabricated structures. Research in Buffalo, N.Y., surveyed 45 elementary and secondary school teachers from Salt Lake City. They found teachers often held inaccurate beliefs about the causes of earthquakes and how best to respond to them. Ross and Dargush described their work at the Tenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Madrid, Spain. Thirty-one percent of the teachers agreed with the incorrect statement that quakes occur because the Earth's core moves to the surface. Slightly over half also answered that earthquakes stem from "the layers of the Earth fighting" -- a response that demonstrates confusion about earthquake analogies. All those surveyed knew that people should get under a table and move away from windows during an earthquake. But almost a quarter said that people should go into a storm cellar cellar Portion of a building beneath ground level, used for utilitarian and storage purposes. It is often called a basement, especially when constructed as part of a foundation. A cellar used for food storage (e.g. , a tactic appropriate for tornadoes, not earthquakes. |
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