Sea-Floor Spreading
Sea-floor spreading- a process that looks initially too complex for any school-aged student to understand is actually a fascinating phenomenon that…
Category: Tectonics
How Mountains Form
It’s hard to believe, but just 200 years ago people really had no idea how mountains formed. We’re now to…
Earths Driven Plates
A lesson on how the layers of earth-core, mantle, and crust- interact with each other, beginning with the heated interior,…
Interactive Notes-Plate Tectonics
In this set of interactive notes students: 1.compare the shell thickness of a chicken egg with the earth’s crust, 2.mark…
Plate Tectonics Scavenger Hunt
When was the last time your students actually had fun digging through their text book? Has it ever happened? If…
Earthquakes-Plotting Recent Activity
In this 2-day activity your students will set up a World and U.S. map and then plot earthquakes that happened…
