7th Grade Science Guide

7.2: Changes to Earth 3 Dimensions & Progressions

Unit 3

● Use several types of

evidence (fossils, rocks, glaciers) to revise their model of Pangaea.

Activity: Continental Drift and Fossil Evidence

Objective

Overview

Materials

● I can analyze and

● Students will cut out the continents and arrange them as they might have been Pangea.

● Lesson Plan

interpret data about patterns between plate tectonics and the occurrence of earthquakes and volcanoes, continental and ocean foor features and the distribution of rocks and fossils.

Activity: Continental Drift T-Chart - Ice Age

Objective

Overview

Materials

● I can analyze and

● Students watch a clip from Ice Age Continental Drift and make a T-chart about the correct and incorrect theories/processes behind Earth’s interior.

● Ice Age Continental Drift VideoClip

interpret data about patterns between plate tectonics and the occurrence of earthquakes and

volcanoes, continental and ocean foor features and the distribution of rocks and fossils. ● I can develop and use a scale model of the matter in Earth’s interior to demonstrate how differences in density and

chemical composition cause the formation of the crust, mantle, and core.

Activity: Divergent Plate Boundaries