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University of California

Ucmp: Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides hyperlinks to the history behind and the mechanisms driving plate tectonics. Be sure to click on the globe icons for animations of plate tectonics.
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Activity
Other

Paleomap Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Virtual reality animation map showing continental drift from 200mya to the present. The animation map is small but effective in showing the positions of the land masses.
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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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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How North America Got Its Shape

For Students 9th - 10th
Peter J. Haproff explains how it took millions of years and some incredible plate tectonics to forge the continent we know today. [4:57]
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Columbian Exchange

For Students 9th - 10th
The rapid pace of globalization today is a continuation and acceleration of processes that began 500 years ago. This article discusses that not only humans started to travel the world, but also plants, species, bacteria, and viruses....
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Continental Drift: What's the Big Idea?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students learn how the theory that explains the position of Earth's continents was established and later modified.
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Website
Other

Rockhounding Arkansas: Your Fault, My Fault, and the New Madrid Fault

For Students 9th - 10th
Text and diagrams regarding tectonic forces, the new Madrid Fault, and earthquakes.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Pangea

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a basic definition for what the Pangea was.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Plate Tectonics Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
The internal and external processes of Earth are related through the movement of Earth's plates, called Plate Tectonics. Find out how much you know about Plate Tectonics by taking this quiz.
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Geography 4 kids

Georgraphy 4 Kids: Plate Tectonics Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this ten multiple choice question quiz on place tectonics.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used to spring discussions on fossils, geography, adaptations, as well as different kinds of dinosaurs. This can be a companion to The Magic School Bus chapter book, Dinosaur...
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Facts About the Jurassic Period

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jurassic Period falls within the Mesozoic Era. Read about geologic events that occurred then, the climate, and the plants and animals, including the many types of dinosaurs.
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Handout
Other

Pangea: Alfred L. Wegener Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
Two biographies of Wegener and his work including his theory on how raindrops form.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Plate Tectonics Through Earth History

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The history of plate tectonics past and future.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Supercontinent Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The history of plate tectonics past and future.
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Article
Other

Nacla: Young Assassins of the Drug Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
Tells about the life of young drug traffickers, why and how they become a part of the drug world. From an article written in 1994 for the North American Congress on Latin America.

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