 Unit 3 Earth's Crust Activity 2: Historical Perspective of Plate Tectonics (SI GLEs: 16, 19, 21, 28, 37; ESS GLE: 9)
CC: . Explain to students that they will reconstruct Pangaea based on inferred evidence that this landmass did exist.
Show the students animated maps of Pangaea changing to present day continents. Paleomap Project - you can drag the mouse across the map to see how it goes together. http://www.scotese.com/pangeanim.htm Animation of Pangaea http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/101/pananim.htm Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml Geology.com - Shows separate maps of different geologic periods CC: Direct students to try to fit the shapes together in as many ways as they can. They are to keep track of the number of ways they tried. Provide students with the following table: Evidence of Pangaea. Unitedstreaming Videos http://unitedstreaming.com/index.cfm Our Changing Earth Continental Drift (03:16) Plate Tectonics, Volcanoes, and Earthquakes (04:50)
WORLDBOOK http://www.worldbookonline.com Search term: Pangaea Encyclopedia Articles - 11 items Maps - 2 items Videos and Animations - 1 item Special Reports - 2 items |