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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey Web site helps you visualize different types of plate tectonic activity and shows the impact this activity has on Earth's surface.
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Website
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: La Corteza Terreste Y Sus Materiales

For Students 9th - 10th
In this site learn about the structure of the Earth, the Earth's crust, and the usefulness of the earth materials. It contains many illustrations and 15 interactive activities.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Earth's Crust

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the makeup of the Earth's crust.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Plate Tectonics O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip over this interactive OLogy card to find fast facts, questions and answers, and similar bite-size pieces of information about plate tectonics.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Geology: Plate Tectonics

For Students 6th - 8th
An basic introduction to plate tectonics and the Earth's processes related to this phenomenon.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Landforms

For Students 4th - 8th
Understand the formation and geology of different landforms around the Earth.
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Lesson Plan
The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute: Earth Bowl

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This activity from The Franklin Institute demonstrates the layers of the earth using gelatin, pudding, graham crackers, and a few other items. The young scholars actually construct a representation of the earth that they can eat.
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Activity
The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute: Clay Crash

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Employ this lesson plan from The Franklin Institute to demonstrate plate tectonics and the effects. This is really just a short demonstration that could be incorporated into your existing lesson plan.
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Handout
Other

University of Delaware: Plate Tectonics

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is a very simple overview of plate tectonics. It includes a map of all the major plates and a diagram of the layers of the earth.