Seismic Noise Graph
Greetings everyone! I hope Spring Break is treating you well!
I had a chance to go through everyone’s responses for the seismic noise graph, pictured below:
Recall that in the question, it was defined that seismic noise is the vibration picked up on a seismogram that comes from human activity like daily car traffic. You were asked to identify two patterns you noticed in the data. Some of the patterns identified by students include:
- The data decreases over time.
- The data decreases more after the closure and lockdown.
- The line goes up and down in a zig-zag.
- The low parts of the zig-zag fall on weekends.
- The higher points of the zig-zag tend to be early in the week, such as Monday.
- After the lock down, the highest points on the graph are at the same amount of displacement, or lower than the lowest parts of the graph when traffic was “normal.”
Overall, GREAT JOB everyone! This was a quick-and-easy 5 point assignment. As we move forward, I will try to mix these in more than the longer assignments I’ve been giving. I don’t want anybody to feel overwhelmed. 🙂
Don’t forget that if you are still working on your unit project, the due date on it is April 12th! I included in the directions that I don’t expect you to work during Spring Break, but that if you couldn’t or didn’t want to work on it last week, this week is available for you to work on it as well. In any case, please turn it in before the due date. 🙂
I will send this last bit out over e-mail and Google Classroom. I decided that since we can’t be in the classroom to present our Google Slides, I will give a special prize to any student that does a Screencast or a video presentation of their slides and sends it to me! There are a few rules if you would like to participate in it, but remember it is optional anyway 🙂 Rules:
- Dress professionally for this. At the very minimum, you should be dressed how you normally dress for school. Sorry, but no pajamas! If you showed up to a presentation for work in your pajamas, your boss would send you home. Use it as an excuse to get ready for a day. Without that in our routine, a lot of us are feeling lost!
- Please keep your video under 5 minutes. Do not add in any extra “stuff” like TikTok dances or introductions to your family / cats / whatever. Just you and your slides. Thanks!
- Your slides must be visible in the video, and so must you. If you are doing a screencast, choose a program that will record video of you and put you over the slides in the corner like a streamer does. If you are video taping yourself with your phone, pull up the slides on a device (computer, tablet, Chromebook, whatever) and show it as you present.