HappyGrace Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I am not very familiar with this and the TOG teacher pages don't give me enough to go on. I know plate tectonics/continental drift/volcanoes are related but I need a quick way to learn/teach this! And I'd love to use a visual-maybe with the skin of an orange or something? We are going to do an edible model of the layers of the earth but I need some other visual for the plate moving stuff-to show the different ways the plates collide or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Grade level(s)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted October 11, 2010 Author Share Posted October 11, 2010 Sorry-forgot! 5th grade and 2nd grade. I have a couple sheets I printed out that show Pangea and how it broke apart that I can show them, but I'm not understanding the connection of that with plate tectonics, volcanoes, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 We're using CPO Earth Science so I'm familiar with that website. Under presentation slides on the left side of this page select Unit 4 The Changing Earth. For each section in chapter 11 Plate Tectonics (and for every chapter, btw) there are powerpoint slides. Under 11.1, you'll find what is plate tectonics, pangaea, movement of continents and evidence for continental drift. The slides are taken from the CPO text. On the right side on that same page, under "skill and practice sheets" for the same chapter, there are a few scientist bios and a map of the earth's largest plates that can be labeled and colored. Chapter 12 is earthquakes and volcanoes. I expect you can find similar resources under "presentation slides" and "skill and practice sheets" for those topics :) Just flipping through the book, there's a nice map of earthquakes and plate boundaries in section 12.1 and another for the ring of fire in 12.2------check the slides for those. Obviously, these will work best for your 5th grader but I'm sure you'd be able to discuss the topics at a 2rd grader's level as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 When my kids were in 5th I found some great demonstrations of this in Reader's Digest How the Earth Works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 We took a phone book and cut it in half thru the pages. Then we taped the loose ends with duct tape. These were our plates. We showed different movements of the plates by moving the phone books. Slide one under the other (to bump it up) to show subduction. Show transforming by moving the "plates" past each other (grinding). Converging is when two plates move toward each other--do it with the book pieces. Diverging is when two plates move away from each other. Look up how plate movement makes volcanoes and earthquakes likely (dd can't remember and neither can I! lol) You can show folding of the land to make mountains--just push on the ends of a phone book you haven't cut. There are also oceanic plates. Maybe you could cut up another phone book and make one half blue. She says when an oceanic plate and a continental plate converge, they subduct--the oceanic plate goes under because it is heavier. Two converging continental plates crumble because they are light and that makes a volcano or a mountain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaSheep Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 (edited) This activity looks fun to me: http://circle.adventist.org/files/nadscience5-8/Print%20Materials/ACTIVITIES/ES-TECTONIC%20SNACKS.pdf It uses graham crackers and frosting to model tectonics. This web site has some good information with visuals. ETA: Drat. I just realized I left off the address for that second page. Sorry about that, this is what I meant to post: http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/interior/plate_tectonics.html&edu=elem Edited October 12, 2010 by MamaSheep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted October 12, 2010 Author Share Posted October 12, 2010 Wow, these are great! Exactly what I'm looking for!!!!! LuckyMama-that was NOT the website I got the pages from, but it is just what I need! I am going to have to look into that site more-I've heard talk on here about CPO sci and never investigated. Great site! The slides are perfect and the skill pages too. THANK YOU!! The dc will love the hands-on stuff too, thanks, ladies! They remember it so much better that way. (Today we measured length of Noah's Ark outside with string-WOW-what an eye opener! They will never forget it.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Well, first you break a plate, and then you put it on top of a bowl of pretty hardened Jello, and then... (Kidding) (But actually, it's not a bad idea!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plink Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 When we studied volcanos a few years ago, I dunked large marshmallows in melted chocolate chips and let them harden. The kids pressed on the sides of the hardened chocolate to create "plates" which shifted & revealed deeper layers. It was a super simple demonstration, but memorable - tasty too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 :bigear: Timely thread! Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tam101 Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 We used a hard boiled egg. Roll it on the counter to break it, try to keep it in larger pieces. The pieces of shell will slide slightly over the egg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 A giant-sized Milky Way bar works well. Cut it in half with a knife, then push the two halves together and watch the chocolate crack and be pushed up into a "mountain range." We also made models of earth layers with different colors of clay, about the size of an adult's hand. Kids pushed two sets together from different sides of the table, really pushing hard, and again the layers will push up, cracks will develop, etc. You can also put the two stacks of layered clay, with little features like rivers or hills that go across the divide, on small pieces of wood, then push them past one another sideways to show how a slip-strike fault moves the landscape past another piece... if that makes any sense. You can also google maps of recent earthquakes, and then you'll see the Ring of Fire around the Pacific where the plates subduct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy Inman Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 We used graham crackers floating on a bed of peanut butter... we did 3 kinds of faults with it.... showed one plate going under another, plates moving apart, and plates moving laterally. It was fun and delicious! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 I used this site often when I did earth science. About halfway down the page, there is a demo of plate tectonics called plates on the move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted October 12, 2010 Author Share Posted October 12, 2010 Can't wait to try the edible models! YUM-they will love it. Karen-the demo you linked is PERFECT, thanks (great site)! Thank you all-I went from being worried about teaching this to being excited! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted October 13, 2010 Author Share Posted October 13, 2010 Continental drift/plate tectonic/volcano/earthquake/layers of the earth day was a HUGE success here today!!! The dc said it was their favorite school day ever! Thanks for all the help, everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaSheep Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Continental drift/plate tectonic/volcano/earthquake/layers of the earth day was a HUGE success here today!!! The dc said it was their favorite school day ever!Thanks for all the help, everyone! So what did you do? Share! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted October 13, 2010 Author Share Posted October 13, 2010 It doesn't sound as good as it was when I write it down because the best part was all the discussion that was generated, but first we looked at a few books I had about cont. drift, plate tectonics, etc. A particularly good one they loved was Can You Believe-Volcanos. A great one for layers of the earth that made it more fun was "How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the Earth." I had a matching game type thing for the continents in Pangea that I got a long time ago from a Montessori site. We read a biographical page from the CPO site (linked in this thread) about Wegener and labeled the major plate on an illustration from there. We looked at several websites for illustrations and info, and the ones with animation were a big hit. We used most of the ones linked on this thread. We just did movements of the plates with our hands rather than with the PB and graham crackers because the animation on the one from Karen in CO was so great we didn't need to do it! We did the model of the layers of earth that was on that same site (with cherry, marshmallow, rice krispies, etc.) They LOVED that. Like I said, it sounds lame when I write it out, but in real life there were so many great connections made and everything just came together better than I could have imagined. The proof: they sat for about two hours after BY CHOICE making diagrams and illustrations and labeling them and writing out paragraphs of information about all we had covered!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaSheep Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Doesn't sound lame at all to me. Well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 :party: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted October 13, 2010 Author Share Posted October 13, 2010 Thanks! I guess I just meant it doesn't show the essence of it-the wonderful relational connections we made, etc. Fun day! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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