Natural Hazards

• Natural Hazards Alien Research Project

Rock Layers, Evolution, Geologic Timescale

• ROCK LAYERS
  • Who Dunit?
  • Rock Layer Notes
  • Practice – Layers of Rock Drawing Project
• EVOLUTION – ANATOMICAL CHANGES THROUGHOUT TIME
  • Reading and Annotation Text Symbols
  • Mystery Text Activity
  • Reading – Fossil Record and Anatomical Changes
  • How to Read and Annotate
  • Focus Notes Instructions and Resources
  • Whale Evolution Activity
  • Fossil Record Quiz
• GEOLOTIC TIMESCALE
  • Geologic Timescale Discovery Activity
  • Geologic Time on Football Field Video
  • Geologic Timescale CER

Continental Drift vs. Plate Tectonics

• CONTINENTAL DRIFT
  • Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift
  • Continental Drift Concept Map
  • Wegener’s Puzzling Evidence Activity
  • Article – Evidence for the Movement of Continents
• PLATE TECTONICS
  • Plate Tectonics Webquest
  • Plate Boundaries PowerPoint and Notes
  • Lo’ihi: Hawaii’s Newest Island Reading
  • Seafloor Spreading Model and Activity
  • Snack Tectonics Lab
  • Convection in the Mantle Activity
• ASSESSMENT PROJECTS
  • Assessment – Earth Cross Section Model
  • Assessment – Letter to Wegener

Slow and Fast Geologic Changes

• Intro to Slow and Fast Processes
• Slow and Fast Changes – Game
• Fast Slow Changes – Card Sort
• Weathering vs. Erosion Article and Venn Diagram
• Weathering, Erosion and Deposition Doodle Notes
• Geologic Processes – Frayer Model
• Explaining Changes to the Earth’s Surface
• Assessment – Slow/Fast Geologic Processes