A Tutorial explaining Earth’s Layers and Plate Tectonics. You will learn about the Earth's layers and how plate tectonics works.
Standards: MS-ESS2 Earth’s Systems -
MS-ESS2-2 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.
California Common Core State Standards: ELA/Literacy -
RST.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.
SL.11-12.5 Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
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Watch “Bill Nye the Science Guy: Earth’s Crust” YouTube Video.
Source: Jessica Potts
Here is a website in detail of what is inside the earth. This link will take you to the website, https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/inside.html
Source: USGS Publications Warehouse
This is a good article about Plate Tectonics. This link will take you to the National Geographic website, https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/plate-tectonics/
Source: National Geographic Society. “Plate Tectonics.” National Geographic Society, 5 Mar. 2013, www.nationalgeographic.org/media/plate-tectonics/.
Fun Activity - Layers of the Earth, Plate Tectonics, Boundaries, and Continental Drift Review #continentaldrift #platetectonics
This link will take you to the Kahoot! website, https://create.kahoot.it/share...
Source: Kahoot! Made by Marcia Flores
