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Free classroom Dig Kits. Every adventure on this page is free forever. The kits that go with them are $15 a student — and for every one sold we donate one to a school.
Get free kits for your classAdventure 04 · Earthquakes & Plate Tectonics · Grades 2–5
Quake Escape
A realm splitting itself apart — the floor tilts, the walls grind, and the crack down the middle is getting wider every hour. Six stops, six problems to put right, six Digs to recover. Free, no logins, no accounts. Led by Trembling, the Realm's hero Adventureling.
Assigning one stop
- Every stop has its own address. Stop 4 is
/pages/quake-escape#stop-4— paste it straight into Google Classroom. - Progress is remembered on the device, so a class can do one stop a week and pick up where it left off.
- Each stop runs 10–15 minutes. The finale needs all six done first.
The six stops
1. The Tilting SlabsEarth's crust is cracked into big plates. They pull apart, crash together, or grind past each other. Every one of those makes earthquakes.2. The Shatter WallRock bends under pressure until it snaps along a fault. The snap is the earthquake. The shaking spreads out from it as waves.3. The Blade ForestThe focus is where the rock actually breaks, down underground. The epicenter is the spot on the surface directly above it.4. The Shivering BridgeP waves travel fastest and arrive first. S waves come next, shaking side to side. Surface waves arrive last and shake the hardest.5. The Iron DeepEarth has four layers. The crust and the mantle are rock. The outer core and inner core are iron and nickel — the outer one liquid, the inner one solid.6. Trembling HollowAftershocks are smaller quakes that follow the main one, sometimes for days. In shaking, the thing that hurts you is falling rock.
What the kit adds
The adventure is free and always will be. The Quake Escape kit
adds the part a screen cannot do: six real specimens, six Digs that come sealed with the label scratched off,
six Gemlings in a blind bag, and the printed map with Trembling on it. Finish a stop online and that location's
Dig is yours to open for real.
Finished Quake Escape? The online adventure is the half you can do today. The other half is a real specimen in your hand — six of them, one per stop, sealed in a Dig with the label scratched off.
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