Students will complete a probe on the time and spatial scale over which different events on Earth occur.
Students will observe a video resource and consider the timescale over which natural disasters occur on Earth.
Students will explore natural disasters at different locations on Earth and draw relationships between plate boundaries and natural disasters.
Students will complete a guided reading activity with a concept map on the relationship between plate movement, geologic events, and natural disasters.
Students will simulate the movement of the San Andreas fault using a spring scale and weighted pans. Students will observe a demonstration of volcanism. Students will explain how these events occur as punctuated catastrophic events
Students will simulate the movement of the San Andreas fault using a spring scale and weighted pans. Students will observe a demonstration of volcanism. Students will explain how these events occur as punctuated catastrophic events
Students will complete a CER about the relationship between plate movement at plate boundaries and catastrophic events. Students will complete a multiple choice formative assessment.
Students will create a seismograph to measure the intensity of Earthquakes
In the previous cycle, students analyzed and interpreted patterns in data to provide evidence for past plate motions. They developed and used models of Earth’s interior structure and plate motion, to explain the processes causing the patterns observed.
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