Plate Tectonics Review Games Chalkboard Chart Review (Draw diagram on board - leave blanks missing - use the actual words to write cards or print for students to correctly place in chart) Boundary Plate Type Land Formation Examples Convergent boundary Continental-Continental Plates Mountains Swiss Alps, Himalayan Mountains Convergent boundary Oceanic-Oceanic Plates Volcanoes Islands Japan Convergent boundary Continental-Oceanic Plates Volcanoes Coastal Mountains Deep Ocean Trenches Pacific Ring of Fire Mariana Trench Divergent boundary Continental-Continental Plates Rift Valleys African Rift Valley, Jordan Rift Valley Divergent boundary Oceanic-Oceanic Plates Mid-ocean ridge Mid-Atlantic Ridge Mid-Pacific Ridge Transform boundary All Faults that can create earthquakes or tsunamis San Andres Fault, Alpine Fault Simon Says - Tectonic Style Teacher demonstrates dance moves to represent each boundary. (Optional: play music to loosen your students up to the activity. Students then perform the appropriate dance move for each land formation or boundary the teacher calls out. Once students are comfortable with the dance moves/land formations, teacher can either say or not say Simon says in front of the land formation/boundary. If students incorrectly change dance moves, then they can sit down in their seat and watch the end of the competition.) Teacher can increase pace of the game to increase the challenge! Use the terminology in the chart above, with either “Simon says” before it or not, to test your students’ knowledge of the plate boundary at which each of these is formed. Four Corners - Tectonic Style Label your room corners “divergent,” “convergent,” “transform,” and “subduction.” Teacher will ask students examples of different land formations (same chart and terminology as above). Students will then walk to area of the room that it corresponds to. Students at the wrong corners will sit in the middle. (If all students are getting the correct matches, then teacher may implement new rule: last two students at the correct corner will sit down in the middle.) You may want to do this outside in grass, using trees as the corners!
