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Middle and High School Geology

Teaching Resources for Middle and High School – Geology

Activities

 

Plate Tectonics Globe Activity

About: This activity creates a mini globe that shows the major plate boundaries of the world. It provides each student with his or her own physical model of the Earth’s plates and helps teach how hard it is to accurately portray a sphere (three-dimensional) on a flat map (two-dimensional).



Grades: 6-12



Topics: Plate tectonics



Length: 2 class periods

 

Instructions and Activity Questions

Instructions and Activity Questions

Maps and Globe Cut-Out

Maps and Globe Cut-Out

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