For this lesson, students will create three-dimensional (3-D) blocks out of paper to learn about the types of faulting that occur at the Earth's surface and its interior. Students will manipulate three fault blocks to demonstrate a...

Students construct a model that demonstrates how a block of rock is extended by a normal fault.

This interactive tutorial on visualizing geologic features contains animated block diagrams that show how the surface expressions of dipping layers, folds, igneous intrusions, and faults are related to subsurface structure and cross...

Animation of the single-block "Earthquake Machine" model shows how "Forces, Faults, and Friction" interact. [0:16]

Site from the Southern Kings Consolidated School about mountains. Learn what mountains are and how they form.

Informative site about mountains. Look at the picture and read all about mountains, then take a quiz to show how much you know!

Site for general information about mountains. There is a downloadable PDF of this article with pictures.

Read about the different types of mountains and how they are formed.

Builders of brick walls need to be especially aware of fault lines which can easily lead to the collapse of the wall. Learners are challenged, here, to use polyminoes to design patterns for brick walls which do not contain fault lines....

A contour map from the vicinity of Elizabethtown showing the rectangular pattern of relief and drainage lines in fault-block mountains of the eastern Adirondacks.

A contour map from 1911 of a fault-block mountain in the Trans-Pecos Highlands, Texas, showing typical relief and drainage patterns.

The NPS offers a good overview of the forces that create a plateau and experiments to help students understand. Lesson plan.