Plate Motion @ Home Lesson 6

Plate Motion @ Home Lesson 6

Standards:

ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth:

Tectonic processes continually generate new ocean sea floor at ridges and destroy old sea floor at trenches. (HS.ESS1.C GBE) (secondary to MS-ESS2-3)

NGSS Practices Practice 2: Developing and Using Models, Practice 8: Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Objectives:

Students will be able to reread a part of the “Listening to Earth” article to obtain information about how plate movement occurs at convergent and divergent boundaries (patterns). They then construct physical models of plate movement at each boundary type (systems and system models), based on what they have read.