Table 3 Second Workshop design: Ruaumoko shakes (An introduction to Earth dynamics and earthquakes)

2. Ruaumoko shakes: introduction to earthquakes and seismic activity

Guided movement to recreate the return to the original void, darkness, space.

Mai ara rā!

Review of the Big Bang and Earth Structure.

Short version of the corresponding activity of workshop 1.

1) New vocabulary in English and Māori languages. 2) Art-piece: a sculptured series of paintings displayed as P, S, and R-seismic waves

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Partner Yoga

Papatūānuku’s stress and forces

Stress and stress-release: earthquakes and volcanic eruptions need to happen to guarantee natural cycles and Life on Earth

Stretching exercises in partners, feeling tension and its release, weight and its release. Contact-Improvisation exercises to experience: gravity, push, pull, roll, slide.

Class showing videos

and pictures about the Earth structure, mantle convection, tectonic plates, and emphasis on Subduction processes.

A round of questions from teachers aimed

to reinforce and synthetize the lessons. This activity was mingled with traditional songs.

Gravity

Guided movement recreating mantle convection.

Ruaumoko’s job (mahi) inside Papatūānuku

Free-style movement to experience the response of matter (strain) to stress.

Crustal strain and stress, and introduction to earthquakes

Free-style fluid, plastic, elastic, and fragile behavior with movements.

Game with a rope to recreate P, S, and R-seismic waves.

Seismic waves

Game: one kid personified Ruaumoko triggering earthquakes, and a team of children represented the crust responding to the seismic waves by rolling, folding, pushing, sliding, until creating mountains.

Orogenesis