Continental Drift: The Game (Day 1)
CW/HW: Complete the Continental Drift Island Match Handouts
DN: When is your midterm? And what will it cover?
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CW/HW: Complete filling out the Continental Drift Islands Activity Handout.
DN: When is your midterm? And what will it cover?
Resources
Continental Drift Game Direct Link
Continental Drift Islands Activity Handout
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now by answering the question.
10min 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.
5min Clean up. Wrap up.
Plate Tectonics: StopMotion Animation
HW: Review for quiz.
CW: Plate Tectonics StopMotion Animation turned in via schoology.
DN: Which way is convection? (Tectonic plate is going right.)
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HW: Review for quiz.
CW: Plate Tectonics StopMotion Animation turned in via schoology.
DN: Which way is convection? (Tectonic plate is going right.)
RESOURCES
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now by describing the particles of a solid and a gas.
5min Teacher organizes students into pairs for access to technology.
10-15min Plate Tectonics StopMotion Animation. Working in pairs or groups of three, students complete animate two tectonic plates (made from Play-Doh) above the mantle (orange construction paper) and two convection currents (paper circles with arrows) underneath in the mantle.
Animation Sequence:
Title (5pics) - ‘Plate Tectonics’ with all names underneath.
Convergent w/o Subduction (20pics) - Show large mountain formation. Don’t tilt the plates have them smoosh together to make mountains.
Convergent with Subduction (20pics) - Show small mountain and trench formation. The plate on top will form a mountain as the other goes under.
Divergent (10pics) - Don’t forget to change the direction of the convection.
Turn in via schoology.
5min Review videos.
5min Clean up. Wrap up.
Plate Tectonics: Plate Boundary Cheers
HW: OPTIONAL - BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) with Stop Motion Studio app already installed.
DN: Draw the layers of the earth.
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HW: OPTIONAL - BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) with Stop Motion Studio app already installed.
DN: Draw the layers of the earth.
Resources
Stop Motion Studio App (Apple)
Stop Motion Studio App (Android)
Plate Tectonics Review Handout
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now.
5min Assign students (groups of four or more) a plate boundary.
10min Cheer Practice. Students create and perform cheers that demonstrate how the plates move in convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries because of convection. And demonstrate at least one feature of that plate boundary.
10min Cheer Presentations. Students perform their convergent, divergent, or transform boundary cheers.
10min Students continue completing the handout.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.
Plate Tectonics: Review
CW: [1] Plate Tectonics Review Handout [2] INGO sheet.
DN: Which plate boundaries have volcanoes?
Reminder: [1] OPTIONAL - BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) with Stop Motion Studio app already installed on TUESDAY. [2] Quiz on Wednesday.
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CW: [1] Plate Tectonics Review Handout [2] INGO sheet
DN: Which plate boundaries have volcanoes?
Reminder: [1] OPTIONAL - BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) with Stop Motion Studio app already installed on TUESDAY. [2] Quiz on Wednesday.
Resources
LESSON OUTLINE
5min Students complete the Do Now.
5min Plate Tectonic Haiku.
10min Complete Plate Tectonic Review Worksheet.
10min INGO. (Mountain/Volcano, Subduction, Lower Mantle, Inner Core, Outer Core, Ridges, Convergent, Earthquakes, Upper Mantles, Divergent, Convection, Trench, Thermal Vent, Outer Core, Tsunami/Tidal Wave, Tectonic Plate, Crust, Transform)
10min Flashcards. Turn INGO game sheet into flashcards.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.