Description
Do you need resources to introduce plate tectonics and continental drift for your Earth Science, Marine Science or Oceanography class? This resource contains activities including an editable PowerPoint lesson with guided notes and an assessment that all tie together. It also includes warm-ups, self-grading task cards and Digital Google Slides activities. Most of the activities are editable and they are all digital for use with Google Slides or Forms for online or online learning!
Included in this bundle:
1. Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift Editable PowerPoint Lesson, Guided Notes and Assessment
Do you need a resource to introduce plate tectonics and continental drift for your Earth Science, Marine Science or Oceanography class? This resource contains an editable PowerPoint lesson with guided notes and an assessment that all tie together. The PowerPoint and guided notes are also included in Google Slides which make this a perfect digital resource for online learning! There is also a self-grading Google Forms assessment. This is a no prep resource!
The PowerPoint is broken up into 4 different parts:
❔ Engage: This is a question that is used to get students thinking and engaged before the lesson begins. They answer the question in their guided notes.
☑ Checkpoints: These are questions throughout the lesson that assess what students are learning as they go through. The student’s answer these questions in their guided notes. Answer key is included in the PowerPoint & PDF.
↵ Bringing it Back: This final question wraps up the lesson by tying student’s new knowledge with the engagement piece.
✐Summarize! Students can summarize their learning by writing, drawing or both.
The PowerPoint is editable. The titles, images and clip art are not editable.
Guided Notes:
The guided notes follow along with the lesson. This allows the students to go through the lesson with the class as the teacher goes through the slides or they can fill it out independently if they are using the Google Slides digitally. All the text aside from the title and cover page are editable.
The Google Slides version of the guided notes include helpful tools for students to use and moveable digital pieces in the form of highlighter strokes so students can highlight key words and information.
Includes two cover pages for interactive notebook booklet sand digital interactive notebooks. One in color and one in black and white.
The Google Slides version of the guided notes are not editable.
Assessment:
The assessment contains 25 questions with a mix of vocabulary matching, short answer and multiple choice questions. An answer key is included. Everything is editable except for the title and any included clip art lip art.
A self-grading Google Forms version is included. The link is in the resource. The google Forms assessment has the same questions but they are all multiple choice.
Content covered:
⭐ Big Bang Theory and formation of Earth
⭐ Earth’s Layers
⭐ Continental Crust vs Oceanic Crust
⭐ Plate Tectonics
⭐ Continental Drift
⭐ Sea Floor Spreading
⭐ Mid-Ocean Ridge
⭐ Trenches
⭐ Rifts
⭐ Alfred Wegener
⭐ Pangea
⭐ Panthalassa
⭐ Marine sediments (lithogenous, biogenous)
⭐ Earth’s Magnetic Field and Magnetic Anomalies
⭐ Carbon Dating
⭐ Divergent Boundaries
⭐ Convergent Boundaries
⭐ Transform Boundaries
*Each resource is in PDF and PowerPoint format for easy editing.
2. Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift Editable Self-Grading Task Cards
These 24 Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift editable task cards can be used in a classroom or digitally for online learning through Google Forms with no prep and they are self grading! Perfect for a Marine science, Earth Science or Oceanography class. They can be easily printed, cut and laminated for use in the classroom with a ready-to-print student answer sheet.
Review vocabulary, key concepts and contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift.
The link for Google Forms is available in the resource. An answer key in included in the resource and in Google Forms.
Task cards can be printed 1 per page or 4 per page. The answer sheet can be printed 1 per page or 2 per page to save paper. I typically print 2 per page so they’re perfect for gluing into interactive notebooks.
*Please note that the text is editable in each task card but the titles and clip art are not editable.
Content covered:
⭐ Earth’s Layers
⭐ Continental Crust vs Oceanic Crust
⭐ Plate Tectonics
⭐ Continental Drift
⭐ Sea Floor Spreading
⭐ Mid-Ocean Ridge
⭐ Trenches
⭐ Rifts
⭐ Alfred Wegener
⭐ Pangea
⭐ Panthalassa
⭐ Marine sediments (lithogenous, biogenous)
⭐ Earth’s Magnetic Field and Magnetic Anomalies
⭐ Carbon Dating
⭐ Divergent Boundaries
⭐ Convergent Boundaries
⭐ Transform Boundaries
3. Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift Editable Warm-Ups
3 weeks of editable warm up slides, digital or print versions are perfect for a Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift unit in your Marine Science, Earth Science or Oceanography classroom with no prep! Use these as bellringers or even cut them out to use as exit tickets. Google Slides versions are also included for online learning.
Each question is in short or long response format so students explain the topic and their understanding.
There are 3 ways to use these editable warm ups:
1. Use them with slides as students fill out the answers on their own personal answer sheet.
2. Use the answer sheets with the questions on them without the slides. I personally have my students hole punch them each week to add into a pronged folder or binder to use as a study tool. You can even print them at 90% so students can glue them into their interactive science notebooks!
3. Use them for online learning or digitally with the Google Slides version. This is also perfect for digital interactive student notebooks.
A PowerPoint version is included for editing and a PDF version is included for easy printing.
*The questions are editable but the fonts and clip art are not due to copyright.*
Included in this resource:
✅ 3 weeks of warm ups (15 total).
✅ 3 editable templates to fit the needs of you and your students
✅ PowerPoint Slides with the questions to project for your students
✅ Answer Key
✅ Blank Slides and Answer Sheets to add your own questions.
Content covered:
⭐ Earth’s Layers
⭐ Continental Crust vs Oceanic Crust
⭐ Plate Tectonics
⭐ Continental Drift
⭐ Sea Floor Spreading
⭐ Mid-Ocean Ridge
⭐ Trenches
⭐ Rifts
⭐ Alfred Wegener
⭐ Pangea
⭐ Panthalassa
⭐ Marine sediments (lithogenous, biogenous)
⭐ Earth’s Magnetic Field and Magnetic Anomalies
⭐ Carbon Dating
⭐ Divergent Boundaries
⭐ Convergent Boundaries
⭐ Transform Boundaries
*Each resource is in PDF and PowerPoint format for easy editing.
4. Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift Print and Digital Google Slides Activities
This is a fully digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities to review the Theory of Plate Tectonics, continental drift and Earth’s structures. These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, interactive science notebooks, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for online learning!
Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections and review concepts.
The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.
The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.
Content covered:
⭐ Earth’s Layers
⭐ Plate Boundaries (convergent, divergent, transform)
⭐ Plate collisions (oceanic-oceanic, continental-continental and oceanic-continental)
⭐ Evidence for plate tectonics and continental drift (mid-ocean ridge, magnetic anomalies and sea-floor spreading)
⭐ The Ring of Fire
⭐ Oceanic vs Continental Crust
5. Plate Tectonics Edible Food Lab
Do you need a fun, edible food lab for your plate tectonics and continental drift unit for your middle grades Earth Science class? This lab is perfect and really helps the students understand plate boundaries through a hands-on activity. A Google Slides and print version are included. Most of the text is editable to meet the needs of your classroom.
The lab goes step by step to provide demonstrations of plate boundary activity with both oceanic and continental crust. It includes short answer and long response. The conclusion includes a CER (claim, evidence, reasoning) activity to get students critically thinking.
A quick, one page review activity is also included to use before or after the lab is completed.
Content covered:
⭐ Oceanic vs Continental Crust
⭐ Convergent boundaries
⭐ Divergent boundaries
⭐ Transform boundaries
⭐ Subduction
⭐ Lithosphere
⭐ Asthenosphere
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