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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Plates on the Move

For Students 9th - 10th
Find an interrelated set of tools--maps, animations, diagrams, photographs, and text--to help you understand tectonic plates and how they move.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: When Continents Collide

For Students 3rd - 8th
Material to begin an exploration of plate tectonics and mountain formation. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on metamorphic rocks and mountain building, and ideas for teaching this...
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Handout
University of Washington

University of Washington: Mountain Building

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed description of tectonic plate collisions. There are illustrations of Indian and Eurasian plate collision.
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Online Course
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: The Engine That Drives the Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Material to begin an exploration of volcanoes, earthquakes, and plate tectonics. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on volcano types, plate boundaries, and "hot spots," and ideas for...
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Graphic
Oregon State University

Osu: Volcano World: Spreading Plate Boundaries

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has pictures and descriptions of different areas on Earth where the plates are spreading. Also includes links to more information on slow, medium, and fast moving plates.
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Handout
University of Oregon

The Electronic Universe Project: Plate Boundaries/plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this site to learn more about the different types of plate boundaries. Includes color pictures and easy-to-understand examples of how and why plates move the way they do.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Theory of Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed discussion of plate tectonics. Looks at continental drift, types of tectonic plates and plate boundaries, and primary and secondary tectonic plates.
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Handout
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Expeditions to the Sea Floor: Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive site provides information on the Breakup of Pangea, plate boundaries, plate movements as well as a quiz.
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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
US Geological Survey

Usgs: Major Tectonic Plates of the Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of major tectonic plates of the Earth showing where the Eurasian and Indo-Australian plates are located.
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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.