GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: Plate Tectonics
Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 14
Objectives
- Describe the hypothesis of continental drift.
- Identify evidence supporting continental drift.
- Explain seafloor spreading.
- Recognize how age and magnetic clues support seafloor spreading.
- Compare and contrast different types of plate boundaries.
- Explain how heat inside the Earth causes plate tectonics.
- Recognize features caused by plate tectonics.
Set, Hook, Focus
How are volcanoes and fish connected?
Learning Tasks
Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).
- Section 1: Students will define all vocabulary words in chapter; Explore activity - Reassemble an Image - Text Page 391; Res Page 22 - Key Terms; Res Page 27 - Reinforcement -Continental Drift. Lab Activity - Res Page 13 - How do continental plates move?; Section assessment question and answer - text page 395.
- Section 2: Activity - Text Page 399 - Seafloor Spreading Rates; Res Page 20 - Continental drift and Seafloor spreading; Res Page 28 - Reinforcement Seafloor Spreading; Section assessment question and answer - text page 398.
- Section 3: Use science words - Text Page 402; Lab Demonstration - Text page 402; NGO Visualizing Plate Boundaries - Text page 403; Mini-lab - Modeling Convection Currents - Text Page 405; Res. Page 21 - Theory of plate tectonics; Res Page 29 - reinforcement; Section assessment question and answer - text page 409.
- Read/Review/Answer questions for LEAP workbook.
Evaluation/Assessment
- Class discussions, assessment questioning.
- Vocabulary Test Thursday