3.04+Plate+Tectonics

42. Crashing, pulling, slipping, sliding: plates in motion and the movements they make (earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.) (3.04)

In order for students to get to understand plate tectonics adequately, I’d like to engage them in a webquest. First, I’d give a brief lecture about the different plates on the earth and the different types of movements, and include the following short video clip []. I’d have students hypothesize what happened when two plates came together, pulled apart, or slipped under one another. After that, students would be given a guided worksheet with more specific interactive websites to visit in order to figure out specific information and would work in pairs to complete it. They’d be responsible for finding things like types of plate movement, information on volcanoes, what plates are doing today, earthquakes, etc..and also be responsible for finding one “current event” on their own.