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Plate Tectonic Theory [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this slideshow on Plate Tectonics-The unifying theory for all other theories in the Earth sciences-Has resulted in a more detailed understanding of Earth history-Has enabled geologists to more precisely(and cheaply) discover...
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University of California

Ucmp: Plate Tectonics: The Mechanism

For Students 9th - 10th
A basic description of the driving force behind plate movement. Describes major features of the ocean floor including mid-oceanic ridges.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Earth Sciences: Move Mountains

For Students 9th - 10th
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the science experiements straight to your fingertips. Learn about tectonic plates will Bill Nye as you take part in this interactive lesson and help make learning permanent!
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Online: Plate Tectonics Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this 20 multiple choice question quiz on plate tectonics.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Plate Tectonics

For Students 1st - 9th
This site helps students learn about the Earth science subject of plate tectonics including major and minor plates, convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries.
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Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: Plates Are Moving Beneath You

For Students 3rd - 8th
Identify where in the world the eight major plates are and discover how they are on the move.
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PurposeGames

Purpose Games: Plate Tectonics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Gamers will test their knowledge of plate tectonics with this interactive. Know your divergent plate boundaries, hot spots, trenches, lithosphere, and other trivial facts of plate tectonics.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This plate tectonic activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to the physical processes that shape the Earth's surface.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Edible Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As we stand on the top layer of our planet it is a little difficult to get hands-on with plate tectonics. This activity uses layered cake to allow young scholars an up close representation of how major land features have been created.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Actions at Plate Boundaries

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will allow the students to understand the cause and effects of plates interactions. The students will learn that plate boundaries function as a release for much of the Earth's potential energy. The students will be able to...
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University of California

Ucmp: Wegener (1880 1930)

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete biographical information with links to his theories. Contains links to interactives on plate tectonics.
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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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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Mountain Building

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons focusing on all aspects of how mountains are formed. Inquiry-based exploration of mountain building includes the rock cycle, mountain formation, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, rocks, minerals, and...
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Indiana University

Indiana University Bloomington: Earthquakes in Indiana [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed brochure with lots of information about the earthquakes that occur in Indiana. Discusses plate tectonics, how fault zones developed in the Mississippi River Valley, faults in Indiana, earthquakes that affected Indiana in the...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space 3

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Visit an active volcano site to find out the connection between the movement of the Earth's plates and the processes deep within the Earth's interior. [58:23]
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geo Logic: Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the skills of a paleontologist, learners are asked to match up lecturers with what day and time they teach, and how many students they have based on clues given from several different perspectives. In the second part of the...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: About Antarctica: Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
Explanation of why Antarctica has fossils of ferns, amphibians, and reptiles. Gondwanaland is discussed and shown in an interactive map.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Plate Interactions Challenge

For Students 3rd - 8th
Identify real-world cases of boundary interactions and predict the most likely future geologic outcomes. In the lightning round, unscramble four geologic terms.
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Basin Range Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive map of the Basin and Range Province reveals earthquakes, faults, hazards, volcanoes, mines, and National Parks.
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The History Cat

The History Cat: Geography: Places: Africa's Great Rift Valley

For Students 4th - 8th
Describes the geography of the Great Rift Valley in Africa, how it was formed by tectonic plate separation, and the majestic lakes and falls that have been created by it.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: On the Road With the Faultline Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This outstanding multimedia website follows the San Andreas fault system up the California coast from San Diego to just north of San Francisco on the coast.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Earthquake Faultline Earthquake Activities

For Students 9th - 10th
This outstanding website provides an excellent variety of hands-on earthquake activities to help you understand what causes earthquakes.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Loma Prieta, Bay Area, Earthquake 1989

For Students 9th - 10th
This outstanding multimedia site documents the earthquake and related events that took place on October 17, 1989 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Other

Nasa: Iss Earth Kam

For Students 9th - 10th
Students get a whole new perspective of the world through images obtained from the International Space Station. Students can even request images to be taken through ISS EarthKAM. Activities and educator guides are provided.

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