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Usra: Lunar and Planetary Institute: Hot Spot Activity [Pdf]
For this lesson, students will measure the distances between Hawaiian islands, and convert and graph their data to determine the speed of the Pacific Plate.
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Paleomap Project
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.
Math Science Nucleus
I. Science Ma Te: Integrating Science, Math and Technology
This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Dynamic Earth Interactive
Delve into the structure of the Earth to learn what causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and more.
University of California
Ucmp: Plate Tectonics: The Mechanism
A basic description of the driving force behind plate movement. Describes major features of the ocean floor including mid-oceanic ridges.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Earth's Plates
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to the theory of plate tectonics. Continental drift theory and Pangaea are also discussed.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography
A collection of video lectures from an introduction to oceanography course taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. The course gives a general introduction to the processes and history of Earth's global oceanic system in...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Engineering Geology
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the basics of engineering geology. Webpage includes forty lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length...
Curated OER
Plate Boundaries/plate Tectonics
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.
Curated OER
Extreme Science: A Lesson in Plate Tectonics
With its clickable map, this site provides text and graphics on spreading boundary, converging boundary, subduction zone, transverse boundaries and faults.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Major Tectonic Plates of the Earth
A map of major tectonic plates of the Earth showing where the Eurasian and Indo-Australian plates are located.
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Rockhounding Arkansas: Your Fault, My Fault, and the New Madrid Fault
Text and diagrams regarding tectonic forces, the new Madrid Fault, and earthquakes.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Dynamic Earth: Slip, Slide, & Collide
Looking for more information about plate tectonics and what happens at plate boundaries? This site gives definitions of all plate boundaries as well as animations to help visualize what is happening.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Volcanoes of the u.s.
This graphical and textual journey about the US volcanoes was made by Steven Brantley. There is an introduction, volcanoes and plate tectonics, Hawaiian volcanoes, cascade volcanoes, restless volcanoes, a glossary and further readings.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Paleobiology: Geologic Time: Hadean Eon
Journey into the past while reading this comprehensive overview of the Hadean Eon that covers topics such as the formation of the earth, its surface and atmosphere, fossil evidence, erosion and plate tectonics.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Igneous Activity
In this interactive tutorial you will learn about the types, forms, and hazards of volcanoes. The types of landform common to volcanic activity is discussed. Then, the landforms commonly resulting from intrusive igneous activity are...
University of Washington
University of Washington: Mountain Building
A detailed description of tectonic plate collisions. There are illustrations of Indian and Eurasian plate collision.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Plate Tectonics,natural Resources
Through interactive activities and readings, students learn that natural resources can be renewable or nonrenewable, but sustainable use and management must be applied to ensure they are available for the long term.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Earthquake Country
A suite of lessons focusing on all aspects of earthquakes. Inquiry-based exploration of earthquakes includes measuring seismic waves, predicting earthquakes, investigating magnitude and intensity, mapping fault lines, and evaluating...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Discovering Plate Boundaries
A classroom activity designed to introduce students to the process of observing and classifying data, in addition to the fundamentals of plate tectonics.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Discovering Plate Boundaries
A data rich exercise built around four global data maps to help learners discover the processes that occur at plate tectonic boundaries. The lesson is based on the jigsaw concept, mixing the students to work in different groups during...
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Earth History: The Paleomap Project
The Paleomap Project illustrates the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1,100 million years.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Happens When Continents Collide?
Tens of millions of years ago, plate tectonics set North and South America on an unavoidable collision course that would change the face of the Earth and spell life or death for thousands of species. Juan D. Carrillo explains the massive...
University of California
University of California Museum of Paleontology: Distribution in Time and Space
The Understanding Evolution site provides evidence for evolution in biogeography utilizing relative dating, geography, and plate tectonics.
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