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Deep Thoughts

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Students examine what lies within the Earth. They research and create scale models illustrating the layers of the Earth and write skits advocating a travel plan to send a probe into the Earth's mantle.

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inclined planes, alloys, magnitude, seismology

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acceded, alloy, buoyed, deduced, descended, ductile, ensue, feasible, goofy, innards, lavished, magnitude, pacemakers, preposterous, propagate, provocative, seismic, skeptical, trove, underlying, wedges, whopper, science
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Project-Based Learning
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Year
2003
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