Mr. Stephens
Oceanography
Week 6 Lessons (10/23-10/27)
Unit 3-Plate Tectonics and Ocean Basins
Due:
Day in Year
Day in Week
Earth Models
31
1
Isostatic Questions
32
2
Divergent Plate Boundary O/P
33
3
Convergent Plate Boundary OP
34
4
Plate Boundary Wkst
35
5
Learning
Target
(Objective)
Assess the validity of the plate
tectonics theory using the feature
of the ocean floor as evidence
Students know the principal
structures that form at the three
different kinds of plate boundaries
Students know the principal
structures that form at the three
different kinds of plate boundaries
Students know the principal
structures that form at the three
different kinds of plate boundaries
Students know the principal
structures that form at the three
different kinds of plate boundaries
California
Standard
Plate tectonics operating over
geologic time has changed the
patterns of land, sea, and
mountains on Earth’s surface
Plate tectonics operating over
geologic time has changed the
patterns of land, sea, and
mountains on Earth’s surface
Plate tectonics operating over
geologic time has changed the
patterns of land, sea, and
mountains on Earth’s surface
Plate tectonics operating over
geologic time has changed the
patterns of land, sea, and
mountains on Earth’s surface
Plate tectonics operating over
geologic time has changed the
patterns of land, sea, and
mountains on Earth’s surface
Assessment
Earth Model
Divergent Boundary Output
Nicenet Questions
Plate Boundaries WKST
Week 6 Quiz
Warm-up
(APK)
MB Optical Illusion 1
MB Optical illusion 2
MB Optical Illusion 3
MB Which line is longer?
MB-Morphing Hand
TOTD-The best things in life aren’t
things.
TOTD-Your health is your wealth.
TOTD- "Whether you think that you
can, or that you can't, you are usually
right.” Henry Ford
TOTD- "Many wealthy people are
little more than janitors of their
possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Agenda
(EPK)
∙Earth Model Gallery Walk
∙Isostatic Adjustment Lab
∙Divergent Root words
∙Dance
∙PPT p 27-30
∙Show locations on Google
Earth
∙Iceland Video
∙Group work
1. Make a model or
kinesthetic demo
modeling divergent
boundaries.
2. Can DPB occur on land
or sea?
3. What is rifting?
4. What is the difference
between oceanic rises and
oceanic ridges?
5. Give an example of each
from #4.
TOTD "I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have."
TJ
∙Convergent root words
∙Click on volcanoes and view
slide show and discuss questions
∙Click on volcano photos (all of
these photos are all Cascade
volcanoes on the North
American continental arc.
∙Answer the questions on
nicenet.
∙Write in the answers into your
ISCB.
Questions:
1. What are the three subtypes of convergent
boundaries? Describe
each one.
2. Where in the world do
each of those
boundaries occur?
3. Where do continental
arcs occur?
4. Where do island arcs
occur?
If you have extra time click on
∙Transform root words
∙Transform Boundary Notes
(ppt)
∙Read p. 94
∙Complete the Plate Boundaries
Worksheet
∙Rock Cycle movie
∙Review Plate Boundaries
Worksheet
∙Define mantle plumes,
hotspots, and nematath.
∙View on Google Earth
∙PPT #37-39
∙Short History of Everything
Exerpt on Yellowstone
Week 6 Quiz
Homework
Materials
1.What is Isostatic adjustment?
2. How is a lab you design
different from one I design?
3. How was a self-made lab
effective/ineffective?
∙Read p 84-89
Materials of student choice for
lab
∙Divergent Plate Boundary
Output
∙Read p89-94
Projector
KeyAPK-Accessing Prior Knowledge
EPK-Extending Prior Knowledge
Hyperlinks to documents only work on the school server
Hyperlinks to internet work anywhere
Differentiation -Laptops enable students to work at their own pace
Great animations and click on
volcanoes and volcanism.
∙Convergent Plate Boundary
Output
Computers
Read p94-96
Week 6 Quiz output
Plate Boundaries Worksheet
Short History on Nearly
Everything
Week 6 Quiz