GRADE 8 - Lesson Title: Plate Tectonics
Textbook and Chapter: Green Chapter 14
Objectives
- 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 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.
- Students will conduct research using the laptops to find information on plate boundaries, land formations, and locations.
- Students will perform a lab activity in which they must reconstruct Pangaea using fossil clues, rock strata, and land shape.
Evaluation/Assessment
- Class discussions, assessment questioning.
- Chapter Test Wednesday
**8th Grade will be on a field trip Thursday**