The foldable compares and contrasts the three types of plate boundaries. Plates and their consequences 8th grade alexander sernawallender. Plate tectonics describes the distribution and motion of the plates. Plate tectonics interactive notebook a compilation of 9 plate tectonics resources including foldables, wordmeaning sort, pages to glue in, and a layers of the earth flip book, that can be used in your students science interactive notebooks. Plate boundary movements and their results foldable. Students can either construct the foldable as a handheld study tool or glue it into their interactive notebooks. You may find that students work slow at first, but once groups are organized and students know what is expected from. Voyage through time a plate tectonics page 2 of 16 procedure. Plate tectonics foldable earth science, plate tectonics. Plate tectonics, the study of such relative motions and their consequences, allows relating surface, geological and geophysical structures with quantified movements attributed to deep processes of the earths heat engine. A piece of the hard, rigid shell that covers the earth. The layer below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere. Students will create a flap book of earth where they will need to.
I also organized a few teacher notes on plate tectonics to help guide class discussions today. Turn your folded paper so that the open end of the fold is facing you. The theory of plate tectonics activityworksheet 3 volcanoes 8. In the early 1900s alfred wegener proposed the continents were drifting. Multiple choice questions for plate tectonics chapter 19. You will recall from a previous chapter that there are three. Textbooks explained these just like your textbooks explain plate tectonics. Students cut out the cover cards and glue them onto the front of a three flap shutter fold foldable. Plate tectonics focuses on the exposition of the plate tectonics hypothesis, as well as plate boundaries, stratification, and kinematics. Word parts prefixes many scientific words are made up of word parts that come from latin and greek. Foldables can be used for any subject and have many different uses. Making a foldable gives students a fast, kinesthetic activity that helps them organize and retain information.
Tectonics does not necessarily equal plate tectonics. There are many different categories or disciplines that make up the science of geology. Indeed, the notion that the entire earths surface is continually shifting has profoundly changed the way we view our world. This lesson plan is useful for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students. Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely to occur either on or near plate boundaries. Multiple choice questions for plate tectonics chapter 19 each chapter will include a few questions designed to test your knowledge of material covered in the chapter and in the internetbased resources. From rivers that carve out canyons to tectonic plates that build mountains, our rocky planet earth is always changing. A foldable is a 3d, studentmade, interactive graphic organizer based upon a skill. Bring the bottom of your paper up so that it almost meets the top of your page about 1 to 2 cm away from the top. I prepared for todays lesson by projecting and tracing the following document plate tectonics template on a large bulletin board paper. These three fold out books require no scissors or cutting and can be used in an interactive notebook or as a stand alone activity. The earths plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Plate tectonics this plate tectonics lesson plan involves a classroom activity to help students understand the processes that move and shape earths surface.
The theory of plate tectonics grew out of earlier hypotheses and observations collected during exploration of the rocks of the ocean floor. Provide students with copies of map sheets figure 1 photocopied on heavy paper card stock, each with a number of frames f1 to f20. Earthquakes result from sudden motions along breaks in the earths crust and can affect landforms and societies. Key concepts include e changes in earths crust due to plate tectonics. Plate tectonics strand earth patterns, cycles, and change topic investigating plate tectonics primary sol 5. Lesson content overview students will demonstrate, identify, and explain the movement of the plates at. Lithosphere is divided into plates that slide around on top of the slowly moving mesosphere tectonic plates it occurred after the breakup of pangaea, and since then the. Fold a piece of colored paper in half hotdogbun style. For 2 centuries, ideas had been formulated about how mountains, ocean basins, etc.
Notes on plate tectonics plate tectonics states that the earths crust and upper mantle are broken into sections, called plates. Edible plate tectonics page 1 focus on inquiry the student will use food to model and observe the plate movement and consequences of plate movement associated with the theory of plate tectonics. This includes cutouts, foldables or master copies where applicable. These frames are reconstructed maps of the landmasses that existed on earth at a specific time. The lithosphere includes both the crust and the solid part of the. Plate tectonics information and facts national geographic. Online shopping for plate tectonics from a great selection at books store. Looking at the information you compiled in your chart above, explain one way the theory of plate tectonics can relate to engineering. Plate tectonics foldable earth science lessons, earth. We now know that, directly or indirectly, plate tectonics influences nearly all geologic processes, past and present. Physical geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. The point where two plates meet is called a plate boundary. Chapter10 plate tectonics boiling springs high school.
Plate tectonics is the surface manifestation of mantle convection, but the large contrast in viscosities between the lithosphere and the deeper mantle leads to departures from a simple boiling pot analogy. Plate tectonics interactive notebook fold out books looking for some easy to use interactive notebook templates for volcanoes, earthquakes and plate boundaries. Volcanoes are locations where molten rock reaches earths surface, and volcanoes can affect landforms and societies. The book first offers information on the rheological stratification of. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. Plate tectonics accounts for important features of earths surface and major geologic events. For more information on how to use these and other tools, see appendix a. Also, you can decide if you want to give the foldable with the answers already given or a blank template so that students can fill in the answers. Students cut out the cover cards and glue them onto. A foldable is to quote the queen of foldables, dinah zike. Charles darwin in his origin of the species gave one of the most quantitative estimates of geologic time. Access thousands of highquality, free k12 articles, and create online assignments with them for your students.
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