Earth & Space Science, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions
Use the powerful program Google Earth to explore local geology! View recent earthquakes, volcanoes around the world, plate boundaries, and more. Includes handout, instructions, worksheet, and links to updated Google Earth files. BAESI Google Earth Plate Tectonics...
Earth & Space Science, ESS1.C: Earth's History, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions
In this lesson, students use reasoning and cut-out landmasses to reassemble the continents as they appeared in the distant past. Includes teacher plan and student handout. Continental Drift Map Activity
Earth & Space Science, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions
In this activity, students use paper models to understand how seafloor spreading and alternating magnetic poles record evidence of plate tectonics. Clicking the link downloads a Word (.DOC) file. A Model of Seafloor Spreading
Earth & Space Science, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions, ESS3.B: Natural Hazards
Teach students about plate tectonics, earthquakes, and maps by doing a two-week plotting lesson. Advanced students can differentiate between deep and shallow earthquakes to enhance the impression of three-dimensional Earth systems. Plot Current Earthquake...
Earth & Space Science, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions, ESS3.B: Natural Hazards, Physical Science, PS3: Energy
IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) offers this wonderful resource on earthquake education. When a major earthquake occurs, IRIS uploads a PowerPoint and a PDF with photos, maps, and explanations about the tectonic setting and the earthquake...
Earth & Space Science, ESS1: Earth's Place in the Universe, ESS1.A: Universe and Stars, ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System, ESS1.C: Earth's History, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions, ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS3: Earth and Human Activity, ESS3.A: Natural Resources, ESS3.B: Natural Hazards, ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems
Learn about the many Earth systems in this interactive, web-based textbook. Chapters include matter, dynamic systems like volcanoes and plate tectonics, hydrosphere, atmosphere, the local space system, and Earth history. Exploring...
Earth & Space Science, ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions
View a description and cutaway diagram of the layers of the Earth on this USGS page. Inside the...
Earth & Space Science, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions
This eBook by the USGS explains the evidence for and functions of plate tectonics. This Dynamic Earth This image from “This Dynamic Earth” shows all the Earth’s tectonic plates in an easy-to-read, colored...
