Essential Questions:
Enduring Understanding:
Reference Materials/Assignments:
Questions/Understandings/Pre-conception Survey
This USGS publication includes EVERYTHING you need to understand about the topic.
Online Edition of "This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics"
It is divided into 7 sections:
Continental Drift + Seafloor Spreading= Plate Tectonics!!!
Continental Drift Evidence Assignment.pdf
For students: "Background Information," "Analyzing Evidence," and "Writing Frame" pages
Continental Drift Map Assignment.pdf
Worksheets are the last 4 pages of the file
The Earth's Magnetic Field "Flipping" Out
Seafloor Spreading Background Information.pdf
Seafloor Spreading Background
Seafloor Spreading Class Lab.doc
Animations:
Seafloor Spreading Online Animation
Geologic Time and Continental Locations
The Paleomap Project: illustrating the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.
The Geologic History of the Northeastern United States
Brief Geologic History of Vermont.pdf