NOTES (Attachments and POWERPOINTS): 

1.)Earth's Layers Guided Note Copy

2.)Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift Powerpoint 

Continental Drift/Seafloor Spreading Guided Notes FILLED IN 

3.)Earthquakes Powerpoint Notes

Earthquakes Guided Notes Filled in

 

 

Textbook chapter PDF for assigned readings: Chapt 12: The Dynamic Crust Text 

 Labs:

1.)Scale Model of the Earth (Need a meter stick and 80 cm of register tape to complete)

2.) Seafloor Spreading (1/2-1/7)

3.)Locating and Epicenter by Triangulation- YOU NEED THIS LAB FOR THE LAB EXAM IN JUNE! (1/31-2/3)

 

Lesson Videos:  

Earths Layers:

 pg 14 Atmospheric Layers Chart in your ESRT (Lesson 11/29+11/30) 

Pg 10 ESRT- Earth's layers and properties (density, pressure, temperature) Lesson 12/10-12/11)

Bill Nye: Greatest Discoveries: Plate Tectonics and Earths Interior (full movie/clips used in class) (start at 3 minutes)

Seismic Wave Speed and Refraction as the travel through the earth

Earthquakes:

Earths Layers/Scale Model of the Earth Lab

Finding the Distance to the Epicenter 

How to read Seismograms (and getting in P/S wave data to figure out epicenter distance, origin time, etc.) 

Earthquake Triangulation (using compasses for the lab with 3 seismic stations) 

Richter Scale Explanation

Tsunamis 101 National Geographic (What is a Tsunami/How are they generated?)

 

Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Theory: 

National Geographic Video: Colliding Continents (50 minutes)

Continental Drift and Types of Plate Boundaries 

Animated Life: Alfred Wegners Life Contribution to Continental Drift

 Alfred Wegner's Supporting Evidence for Continental Drift 

Seafloor Spreading/Divergent Plate Boundaries (convection, magnetic reversals, age of bedrock on seafloor) 

Convergent Plate Boundaries 

Transform Boundaries and Hot Spots 

 

 

Class/HW Worksheets for Content Review:

#29-41 chapt 12 regents review, earths layers using pg. 10 

Layers of the Earth Fill in Worksheet using pg. 10 of ESRT 

Earths Layers Regents Checkpoint questoins (using pg 1, 10, 14 ESRT) 

Crustal Movement and Continental Drift Regents Q's

Seafloor Spreading/Divergent Boundaries Regent Q's       

 Plate Boundaries Graphic Organizers

Earthquakes HW 1 (1-13) regents Q's -travel times, seismograms, distance to epicenter

Earthquakes HW 2 (distance to epicenter, travel time, origin time, locating an epicenter by triangulation)

 

 

Animations used in lessons:

Interactive Plate Tectonics Map

Types of Plate Boundaries (Cross Sections)

The Breakup of Pangea/ Continental Drift

Continental Drift #2

Formation of the Atlantic (from Divergent plates)

Seafloor Magnetism (To Prove Seafloor Spreading)

 

 Continental Drift HMY Online Resource Page