A fun simple science experiment that it's safe to eat to teach kids how plate tectonics make mountains and the different boundaries formed.
Teaching landforms to your primary students can be super fun with my ideas for experiments and resources to make your job easier. Plus, get a freebie!
Teaching earthquakes and earth science concepts of plate movement and does not have to be destructive! Instead check out these engaging science experiments!
Exploring Earth Science in 9 Weeks – This Daily Science Warmups / Work is designed for students in grades 4-5 to help build Earth science knowledge with structured daily activities. Each topic is explored through different types of activities: reading comprehension, vocabulary practice, labeling diagrams, and writing responses. This is a Must-have file filled with printables to add to your classroom or homeschool science activities and an excellent addition for summer practice. Each week focuses on a specific topic students will master: Week 1: Rocks and Minerals Week 2: Soil Week 3: Fossils Week 4: Landforms and Bodies of Water Week 5: The Water Cycle Week 6: Weather and Climate Week 7: Volcanoes Week 8: Plate Tectonics Week 9: Natural Resources You Will Also Love: Exploring Life Science in 9 Weeks Exploring Physical Science in 9 Weeks ⭐Science Throughout the Year Bundle⭐
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This edible plate tectonics science activity is perfect for earth science. Get all the details including a free reading passage on this post.
Here's our hands-on studies of tectonic plate movements, 2nd grade style. We used: a tray with a thin layer of chilled jello (jelly) graham crackers for the earth's crustal plates colored icing (green-continents and blue-oceans) You can see LD putting the continent and ocean onto his plate (ie. graham cracker). We read about the plates and tectonic plate movement and looked carefully at this map. We talked about how when earth was one giant super-continent (Pangaea), India was actually tucked in close to Africa, Australia and Antarctica rather than being a part of Eurasia. This fact is rather important as you'll see later below. We put two crustal plates directly onto the red "mantle." Then I pulled the plates apart and asked the kids what they saw. Obviously they saw the red "lava" and I talked about how new rocks are being formed all the time under the oceans (the Mid-Atlantic Ridge). I read that section from one of our science books. As Gardner's book put it, "When two plates separate, there is a weakness in the Earth's crust. Hot magma from the Earth's mantle may come up between the plates. As the liquid magma cools, it adds new crust to the plates." (p. 32, Earth Shaking Science Projects About Planet Earth) Next, we pushed the plates together and showed how at times the magma is forced up between the plates... ie forming volcanoes. We looked at a map that shows the Pacific Ring of Fire (the ring of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean region). Here's an example of the Ring of Fire. We took two graham crackers and placed them on a plate with a bit of water. Before they became too soggy, LD and I pushed our crustal plates (ie graham crackers) together. This, I told him, is what is happening in India as it pushes into Eurasia. "COOL! Mountains!" LD exclaimed! And do you know what mountains this would be? the tallest ones in the world? "Oh yes, the Himalayas." What a terrific teaching moment! 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Help your primary grade students explore, learn, and write about landforms. See our hands-on landforms activities plus our culminating writing project!
Landforms are one of my favorite topics to teach. There are so many opportunities for hands-on activities. This post shares my favorites.
Divergent, convergent, and transform! Learn how Earth’s tectonic plates interact in this delicious activity. Model the plates’ movements using frosting and graham crackers to understand how Earth’s landscape can change … Continue reading "Edible Plate Tectonics"
I'm a little bit delayed in writing this post about summer school. I suppose I let other summer fun get in the way of my blogging. Oops! :) One day of summer school was spent discussing the Water Cycle. We started our chat about the water cycle by reading the story, A Drop Around the World. I've blogged about this book before because it is one of my favorites. The author does a wonderful job of explaining the multiple paths water can take throughout the water cycle. A class could spend a decent amount of time discussing only what they heard in the book! The morning wouldn't be complete without a little singing and dancing... Lastly, I wanted my students to be able to take home something about the water cycle. Using paper plates, colored pencils, cotton balls, and labels each student made a diagram of the water cycle. Hopefully my future 5th graders will remember this lesson when we begin talking about weather in the fall. Happy Monday!
One of the teachers on my team did this project a few years ago and thought it might be a good way to assess our students understanding of landforms. Each student painted a thick, oval paper plate 1/2 blue and 1/2 green, and then made models of 9 different landforms out of modeling clay. We used gray, dark brown, light brown, red, royal blue, and green clay. Students cut the labels by folding and cutting index cards and then sticking them into each clay form. The flat green plate represented the flat plains, and the blue represented the ocean. I think they turned out great and the kids had SO much FUN making them!
We are in Unit 4-7 of Layers of Learning and today's science lesson was on plate tectonics. We do science once a week, usually on Tuesday or Wednesday . . .
Help your primary grade students explore, learn, and write about landforms. See our hands-on landforms activities plus our culminating writing project!
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Teaching earthquakes and earth science concepts of plate movement and does not have to be destructive! Instead check out these engaging science experiments!
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A fun simple science experiment that it's safe to eat to teach kids how plate tectonics make mountains and the different boundaries formed.
10 hands-on ideas for teaching earth changes and landforms in 2nd grade science with engaging STEM earth changes activities kids love!
Learn about plate tectonics using an orange. This hands on activity is a great introduction to plat boundaries and tectonics for kids
Looking for an easy way to teach continental drift and hands-on plate tectonics? You will love this simple and tasty earth science demonstration using cake!
This science experiment was a great visual for explaining how fold mountains are formed. It also uses materials you already have in the house.
This is one of the messiest, most ridiculous and fun activities we have done this year :) As a wrap up activity for our rocks chapter, my 7th graders made candy models of the three different type o…
Read the Meredith Hooper Book 'The Island That Moved' - this is a little long winded for younger listeners, you can shorten the story a bit by paraphrasing it onto post-it notes ready to read to them. Then we sat around together and I reminded the children about the end of our last session when we made a fossil sandwich..... Do you remember the last time when we talked about fossils and how they were buried under the earth? Do you remember the fossil sandwich that we made? How do you think that those fossils made their way to the surface of the earth to be collected by palaeontologists? Fossils of sea creatures have been found up mountains, what happened to get them up there? (talk about the children’s answers and work towards the earth moving. The story starts way below us at the centre of the earth…… Here is a model of the earth; I’m going to cut it open for us to see what’s inside! (show the play dough model of the earth and cut it open in front of the children for them to see the layers). There are four layers to the earth: · This is the inner core (yellow), it is made of solid metal and it is super-hot. · The outer core (orange) is liquid metal and is also very very hot, it is under immense pressure, being squeezed and pressed by the weight above it. · The mantle (red) is cooler and more solid than the outer core, but it is liquid enough to be slowly moving all the time, like thick cake mix being stirred through by a wooden spoon, (speaking of cake mix, I made some earth cakes for you to try, break them in half and see if you can identify the layers of the earth). · The crust around the outside is made from jigsaw-like plates of rock called tectonic plates that move around very slowly on the mantle and bump into each other. Scientists think that millions of years ago, all of the earth’s continents belonged to one super-continent called Pangaea (show the children the globe with the continents on it, and then give them the felt continents to try and piece together on the zigzag construction paper. Once they have pieced them together then slowly pull the construction paper flat to show the continents moving apart from each other again) As the tectonic plates move around on the slow-moving magma below (show the map of the tectonic plates), they bump into each other and different things happen (ask the children what they think might happen). From that, four different types of mountains can be formed: · Fold mountains occur when two plates collide head on and push against each other. The huge forces involved push the rock up and it folds and creases as it goes (show the children the demonstration with the towels). · Block mountains form when two plates rubbing together suddenly shift, they may have been caught for a long time then the rock suddenly gives way and the plates jump past each other. This often leaves a huge block of rock pushed up or one side of the fault jutting up. The shock waves from the sudden jump cause an earthquake (show the children the card moving in the jar of rice layers) · Dome mountains are pushed up by magma, the molten rock is pushing at the solid plate from below and causes an enormous bulge to form in the earth (blow up a balloon covered by a towel with a piece of pipe, a bulge will form in the towel). · Volcanic mountains form when molten magma from the outer core and the bottom of the mantle forces its way up through the mantle and through a weakness in the tectonic plate(show the children the volcano model and demonstrate the reaction – remind to put goggles on). It either explodes out of the top with huge force, or trickles out gently and continually. Either way, the magma cools once on the surface and new layers of rock are now present. Under the ocean where oceanic plates move apart from each other, magma moves up into the gap and forms new ocean floor (demonstrate this with the crackers and the red jelly layer). The children were all keen to have a go at the practical models, and with their parents sitting around the table helping them out and talking about it with them, there was lots of great chatter and review of important concepts and words. Even the toddlers enjoyed the cracker 'plates' on jelly 'magma' (although they did end up eating most of it!) Predictably, the volcano was the most popular activity, and it did get awash with foamy magma after a while and the concrete mix that made the sides of the volcano slid off and ended up in the bin!! If I ever see another pan of play dough again I might cry but it was worth all the effort of making bags ful of different colours as the families all made their own play dough earth to take home and the children were really pleased with it! Once again I sourced ideas from various books and websites, adapting some of them. I used ideas from The Homeschool Den, the book 'How the Earth Works' and various pinterest sources which can be found on my pinterest science board (some ideas like the play dough earth have been done in so many ways that the original source is impossible to say!). I have saved the scripted session as a google document for you to use, to access it, you need a gmail address/google account - you don't have to use the gmail, just sign up to be able to access my documents! It was a more effective way of sharing with you than saving PDFs to a remote location!
We are in Unit 4-7 of Layers of Learning and today's science lesson was on plate tectonics. We do science once a week, usually on Tuesday or Wednesday . . .
WHAT PLATE TECTONICS LOOKS LIKE Photograph by The Akhenaten Photographer’s Description: Plate Tectonics at Thingvellir in Iceland, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates move a…
Do you happen to live in a volcanic area? We unfortunately don't. I mean, Germany isn't exactly known for its volcanoes, right? Amazingly though, it does have quite a few (about a hundred) but sadly, they do not look the part anymore being that they have been extinct and worn down for millions of years. That doesn't mean my son wasn't thrilled to hear that we had one dormant volcano or that we'd climb to the top of one! Here is the latest on our volcano unit! Writing in "Volcanic Sand" We've written in sand, salt, shaving cream and such before so this time, we wrote in "volcanic sand". I wish it were real but sadly, little me didn't think ahead and didn't bring back any black sand from the Canary Island beach we lounged on a few years back. I guess I was too busy getting my feet off of it (black sand is really hot by the way!) I made this "pretend volcanic sand" using salt and black food coloring. The plastic rock and volcano are decorations from a toy my son has. We used this tray to practice writing numbers mostly but I also saw my son borrow it to practice writing CVC words. Volcanic Versus Non-Volcanic Rocks Now these rocks are real! :) We haven't studied rocks yet so this is a new topic and it has opened a HUGE interest in rock collecting! :) With these few rocks, Adrian had to try and determine whether they were volcanic or non-volcanic rocks. Just by looking, it is not so easy. I let him sort and then I gave him a bit of information on how each rock formed to help him decide whether the rock was in the right place or not. The best part of course is simply handling the rocks...and knowing that some of these might be pulverized and laying on a black sand beach somewhere... Plate tectonics & Volcanoes We learned a lot about volcanoes during our unit...How they grow, what comes out of them, but one question really remained: why are there so many volcanoes in some areas and none in others? It's a tricky question for the younger crowd but with the help of some creme sandwich cookies, it somehow seemed easier to explain...Thus, a big thank you to Prof. Lillie at Oregon State for providing an excerpt of his book into which he explains how plate tectonics work with the help of the delicious cookies. I started with a simple flat map of Earth stating that Earth's surface is like a big puzzle of 7 big pieces and several smaller ones. These pieces are called plate tectonics. These can and do move. Most of the time, we don't feel them shifting but sometimes we do; for example, there might be an earthquake! Of course, earthquakes, like volcanoes happen more in some places than others. Looking at the first plate tectonic map, I asked my son to point out our location. Ah, we were not close to any of the lines called plate tectonic boundaries. The boundaries is where most of the movement of the Earth is felt. For example, the plates sometimes grind together or pull apart. Now was the time to bring in the yumminess! We pretended each cookie represented Earth's mantle (hard crust on top, softer mantle in the middle, lower harder mantle in touch with the liquid core of the planet at the bottom). The first cookie simply allowed me to show that a plate can slide around. They are not tight fitting. There is wiggle room. Then came a second cookie to represent a divergent plate. I broke the top, pushed it in the cream a bit and up again and left a crack. We now had a ridge. Iceland has lots of those! How many are deep enough to even let magma through? We moved on to the second plate; a transform plate. Broke the top of my cookie and made one piece grind against the other. This grinding gives us many earthquakes. A bit of the West Coast in the U.S.A. is located at the boundary of a transform plate. No wonder there are so many earthquakes in California! Finally, the last type of plate is the one that was most interesting for our study: the convergent plate, located pretty much all over the Ring of Fire... This cookie was fun. I cracked the top in two and slid one piece under the other broken piece. It did touch the bottom cookie and broke it too...allowing imaginary magma to come to the surface from the liquid core of Earth... We now knew how plates work, where they are and why volcanoes happen more in some areas. With the plate tectonic maps, Adrian was able to locate lots of volcano sites... and assumed the volcanic islands not at boundaries were born from hot spots. Hello Hawaii and the Canary Islands! Ring of Fire Map & Highlighting Adrian being the volcano lover that he is, he's known for a while that some areas are more prone to others to being host nations. Having explored tectonic plates, I wanted him to discover what effect these really had on the development of volcanoes so I printed a map of the famous Ring of Fire in black and white, showing where the volcanoes are (would provide link but it's already broken...). Adrian then had to "find" the Ring of Fire by highlighting the possible corridor. Of course, he didn't want to leave Hawaii and Easter Island behind so he covered those parts too but overall, he really did find the ring. Then, comparing with the plate tectonic boundary map, I asked him if these volcanoes had developed due to hot spots or due to tectonic plate movements. Without a doubt, he answered that these were located at the boundaries of various plates. These were caused by convergent plates shifting. Location & Status of the Decade Volcanoes Sixteen volcanoes have been identified as particularly interesting by the IAVCEI. Apparently, these volcanoes should be known to the public and more closely monitored because of their location (close to populated areas) and because of their potential for destruction (they tend to be very destructive). Using a map providing the location of each of these volcanoes, Adrian and I work together to identify the current status of each as of right now. Adrian was very excited to work on this. We went through the map by continent/country and then, color-coded by status (VolcanoDiscovery is great to check out statuses and much more!). It was good geography work. Once the map was completed, we played a little game where I'd ask him to tell me how many of the decade volcanoes are erupting today or how many decade volcanoes are located in Africa, and so on. Volcano Eruption Experiment Active volcanoes are spectacular to watch for kids. Whether it's a picture, a video or even in real life, it's simply fascinating for them. Being that we live far from most active volcanoes, I resorted to prepare our own! That is something we did last year during dinosaur week so it wasn't going to be new but it was so well received last year that surely, Adrian wouldn't mind...and he didn't. Neither did his sister. I prepared the volcano as I did last year, following Beth's instructions but going a bit heavier on the soap this time (hehehe). Adrian loved making the volcano erupt himself several times and he and his sister loved having the dinos join in the fun. Playing with the bin Melted Wax Crayon Volcano Craft on Canvas Of course one piece of art for such an extensive unit was not going to cover for it so we tried this one as suggested by Ms. Lemons. I purchased a small canvas for the kids and let them paint a nice sky and ground with tempera paints and we let it dry overnight. The next day, we picked four "lava-colored" crayons and taped them to our landscape using masking tape. It was now time to make the volcano erupt. With the use of a hair dryer, we melted the crayons. It didn't take that long. It's a slow start but once it's going, it's flowing! I let my oldest try with the hair dryer but he thought it was a bit too noisy and heavy and preferred to cover his ears while I melted the crayons under his fascinated eyes. He somehow did not believe this would work! :) While the wax cooled, the kids each drew a cone shaped volcano on a small paper bag and cut it. Once the wax was completely cooled, we glued it to our crayons and landscape. This craft was, to this day, one of my son's favorites. He is asking to melt more crayons almost everyday now! :) Famous German Volcanoes Of course when studying a topic as fascinating as volcanoes, children will often wonder if there are such "mountains of fire" close to them. My son had asked and I thought I'd prepare a small booklet of Germany's Top 3 volcanoes for him. In the folder, he found a map showing where each volcano was but also where he lives as well as a file for each volcano. Together, we read a bit about each to find out their status and type. Field trip to a German Volcano! "Visiting" a volcano will of course not be possible for everyone but if it is, it makes for a wonderful field trip. My son was oh-so-happy to hike to the top of this very extinct volcano and see all these basalt rocks. Even better, he got to bring one back and the one he picked clearly shows the path the lava went 24 millions years ago! Adrian in front of a basalt column A volcanic lunch To complete your unit, what's better than an "eruptive" luncheon? Sandwiches are rarely served here because leftovers are usually what's for lunch but when nothing's left, soups and sandwiches are usually the fillers. During our volcano unit, the sandwich was not just any sandwich: it was a volcano; an active one with a ketchup and cheddar cheese lava on a bed of fresh lettuce. 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We have been talking second grade science! Specifically, we'll chat about the Next Gen standards on landforms and how to implement hands on activities,
Help your students understand the effects of earthquakes during your changes of the earth unit! These hands-on, engaging earthquake experiments are perfect!
We looked a bit more closely at what happens at fault lines where slight shifts in the crust cause earthquakes. First the kids all made t...
These doodle notes are a visual learning tool for helping your students understand how plate movement changes Earth's surface. Ideal for middle school or upper elementary science, doodle notes help provide visual triggers that improve focus, memory and learning. It is amazing how students interact with the content through coloring, writing, drawing and embellishing the main ideas! 2020 Distance Learning Update- If you are looking for digital tools for distance learning be sure to purchase this file with digital tools- CLICK HERE if you want the Google Slides included! Doodle notes can be used for initial instruction OR as a study sheet for students to review. An answer key is included as well as a two versions of the student doodle sheet so that you can pick one that best matches your students! (Some teachers are using the two different versions of the doodle notes to differentiate within their class.) NEW UPDATE! Includes Power Point slides to use with the doodle notes. 20 slides take students through all the main concepts to write on the doodle note sheet. NOTE: Due to Covid 19 the terms of use have changed. Teachers may place these files on a secured platform for student access via a password protected site. (Google Classroom, Schoology...etc) Keep Calm and Doodle On... Includes: 1 Doodle Note Page (2 versions) 1 Teacher Answer Key a completed example Power Point to use with Doodle Note Sheet ***************************************************** This file is available in a discounted bundle! Bundle of Doodle Notes 20% OFF If you are looking for JUST Earth Science Doodle Notes check out this bundle: 25 % OFF Earth Science Doodle Notes 5 Pack Other KCC Doodle Lessons! All my DOODLES in ONE PLACE! Do you WRITE like a SCIENTIST? Science WRITING Skills DOODLE NOTES and STATIONS How do I study for a science test? Science Study Skills DOODLE NOTES and STATIONS Wind Erosion DOODLE NOTES Food Chain DOODLE NOTES © Kate’s Classroom Café 2017 All Rights Reserved
Help your primary grade students explore, learn, and write about landforms. See our hands-on landforms activities plus our culminating writing project!
Hey Teacher Friends, Right now I’m in the process of creating a series of STEM projects for students who are studying Earth Science.. The current unit I’m focusing on is the Rock Cycle! After doing a little research, I came up with two great STEM projects that are simple enough to create in the classroom.
Free Printable Tectonic Plates Map. Free Printable Tectonic Plates Map, great free printable for the earthquake training or geography classroom. If you are teaching about earthquake preparedness, tsunami ready, and the earth plates motion, this free printable can be of great help to make teaching easier. Print this Tectonic Plates Map free using your laser or inkjet printer, share it
Read how I carried out an experiment on weathering and erosion with my upper elementary class. Students get to use background knowledge to make predictions!
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Students can use this foldable to relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features.
The theory of plate tectonics provides geology with a comprehensive theory that explains how the Earth works. Though Alfred Wegener was the first to suggest the theory of continental drift and plate tectonics in 1915, it wasn't widely accepted until the 1960s and 1970s as new information was obtained about the nature of the ocean
For my structured inquiry, students investigated plate boundaries. Given a specific set of questions, students began by independently researching information about plate boundaries. Students recorded information in their science journals. Next, students were placed in groups. Together they shared their research and corrected misconceptions. After each group felt they had thorough and accurate data, they electronically completed and submitted a data chart. The next step of the project was to choose one boundary type and make a model of a landform that occurs at that boundary. Students completed their models in groups. Finally, each group presented a model and lead a class discussion about the landform and boundary where it occurred. Students were very enthusiastic about this project. Students really seemed to like the idea of gathering their own information which translated into them taking control of their own learning. Students also liked the idea of being able to verify their information by working cooperatively with other students. Of course, students were very excited about making their clay models! They did such a great job. The assessments I used included an observation checklist, questioning, journals and grading rubrics. These assessments allowed me to see student learning and provide feedback. I felt student learning was evident throughout the project, especially when I listened to groups using new words they had learned from their research. The following are examples of student work. The first sample is a completed boundary chart. This sample shows student learning as all information is provided and all directions have been followed. The following are pictures of students' models. These models are an example of student learning because students had to create models of land forms created a specific boundary types. Volcano formed at convergent boundary. Sea-floor spreading at a divergent boundary. I really like that students include convection currents in their models! They really enjoyed this part of the lesson. Overall, I am very pleased with how the lesson was carried out, and I am very proud of my students!
This article contains an affiliate link. When my kids studied plate tectonics and earthquakes, we did some super fun hands-on activities. We are continuin
