Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Plate Tectonics

Learning Goals

I can explain how earthquakes and volcanoes occur and relate them to tectonic plate movement.
I can produce a seismic map of the world using ArcView and interpret the patterns on the map to locate tectonic plates.

Lesson

Students are to produce a layout in Arcview that dispalys the major tectonic plartes as well as the earthquake locations for all of the magnitude 6 Earthquakes to have taken place from 1985 to the present.

Sample


Students to work in pairs.

Notice:

Geologic History test on Thursday. - Reading Graphical Text


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