Continental Drift: The Game

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• CW/HW: [1] Complete the Continental Drift Island Match Handout [2] Finish Continental Drift Island Match Slideshow and turn in via Google Classroom

• DN: When is your midterm? And what will it cover?

• Reminder: [1] Quiz retakes Wednesday & Thursday when we return - must have completed worksheet. [2] Notebook check sometime soon.

Resources

Continental Drift Game Direct Link

Continental Drift Island Match Handout

LESSON OUTLINE

5min Students complete the Do Now by answering the question.

5min Teacher outlines how to play the Continental Drift game and fill out the Continental Drift Island Match handout by recording information about the evidence found at each site, marking the locations of mountains, finding the age and composition of the mountains, and recording the layers of core samples, and locations of glacial till.

15-20min Students play the game and complete the worksheet.

10min Continental Drift Island Match Slideshow. Students use the evidence they collected to figure out how the islands fitted together in the past. (The edges don’t have to fit perfectly. Mountains must line up.)

5min Clean up. Wrap up.