Here are all the free resources to help you learn and teach about Plate Tectonics.
Iceland – damage in Grindavik photos
Grindavík is a fishing town on the Southern Peninsula of Iceland. It is one of the few towns with a ...
How to give an amazing presentation
Ramp up your presentation skills for your next conference, or school board meeting, or pitch to a funder. This is ...
Earth’s Plate Tectonic Features – ld
Have your students use this Google Map that shows different features on Earth that are related to Plate Tectonics - ...
World Earthquakes by Depth – LD
Have your students use this Google Map of a month of the globe's Earthquake data to see how earthquakes are ...
Divergent Dilemma
Have your students work on the relative movement of four tectonic plates at an offset spreading ridge (divergent plate boundary). ...
What is the history of the theory of Plate Tectonics?
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What are the mechanisms that drive Plate Tectonics?
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Seeing inside the Earth
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Earth’s Interior Layers
Here is a great activity for your students if you are starting them off on a Plate Tectonics topic - ...
Earth’s layers explained
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Plate Tectonics Google Map
A teaching resource by Mariana Garcia Serrato San Jose, CA, USA For several years I have been teaching Plate Tectonics ...
Benioff Zones – earthquake evidence for subduction
When we look at the earthquake evidence for Plate Tectonics, one amazing feature is the Benioff Zoned earthquakes that show ...
Structure of Earth
Have your students summarize the basic structure of the Earth - crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core - on ...
Volcano shapes – shield, composite/stratiform, caldera – and chemistry
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Transform fault plate boundaries – what are their features?
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Convergent plate boundaries – subduction, collision and Island arcs – what are their features?
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Divergent plate boundaries – what are their features?
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The Evidence for Plate Tectonics
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Earth’s Magnetic Reversals, Polar Wandering and Plate Tectonics
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Earthquakes – what you need to know!
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Introduction to Plate Tectonics
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Lava in Lihue – Role play activity
Description : A classroom role-play activity where students play the role of various town people when their town is being ...
Rocks of Ages
Description : Student activity where they calculate the speed of a moving tectonic plate by using the ages of rocks ...
Evidence for Plate Tectonics
The evidence for Plate Tectonics is very conclusive. It is a very well supported theory, and while scientific debate continues ...
Boundaries – how the plates interact
The Earth's plates don't just sit there. They move and interact at their boundaries - and that is what makes ...
Plates – understanding the tectonic jigsaw pieces.
The Earth's rocky outerlayer (the lithosphere) is broken up into around seventeen major pieces that we call tectonic plates. ...
The Earth’s Crust – a simple way to view it.
The Earth's crust - that outermost rocky layer of our planet - can be daunting to understand. To start ...
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Tectonicland
Students have to read radioactive decay curve graphs to find the ages of samples of rocks collected from the planet ...
Ocean Floor Ages
Have your students find themselves on a map that shows ocean floor ages and then read the age of the ...
Name the Plates
Have your students correctly label the major tectonic plates and some of the minor plates on a simple world map. ...
Earth’s Interior Layers
Have your students label a diagram of the Earth's interior layers - on one side are the chemical layers (Crust, ...
Cruise of the RV Oakley
Have your students plot water depth data from a ship's survey as it passes over plate tectonics features such as ...
Earth’s Plate Tectonic Features
Have your students use this Google Map that shows different features on Earth that are related to Plate Tectonics - ...
World Earthquakes by Depth
Have your students use this Google Map of a month of the globe's Earthquake data to see how earthquakes are ...
Plate Tectonic 3D Models
Have your students construct 3D cut-out interactive paper models of : Sea Floor Spreading Subduction Zone The package also includes ...
Where to build the Hospital – Lava risk
Where to build the hospital - Lava Risk Mapping Have your students take on the role of a volcano risk ...
Subduction Worksheet
Plate Tectonics - Subduction Zone worksheet Have your students research and then label the features of a Subduction Zone using ...
Crust Types Worksheet
Plate Tectonics - Types of crust worksheet Understanding the differences between the two types of crust on Earth is fundamental ...
Science on an Active Volcano
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