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Read Works

Read Works: Earth Science Pangaea

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Pangaea, the one continent that became the current seven continents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Pangaea O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the supercontinent known as Pangaea that broke apart into the continents that we know today. Answer questions when you finish reading.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Pangaea Pop Up

For Students 9th - 10th
Michael Molina discusses the catalysts and consequences of continental drift. [4:25]
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University of California

Ucmp: The Cretaceous Period

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the UCMP Berkeley provides information about the Cretaceous Period, the last portion of the age of the dinosaurs and the continued break up of the continent of Pangaea.
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NASA

Nasa: Earth Science Games

For Students 3rd - 8th
Have fun while exploring earth science. NASA offers seven games online games: Droplet and the Water Cycle, What on Earth?, Word Puzzles, Drag 'n Drop Puzzles, Pangaea Map Game, Tectonics Quiz, and Color Me!
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Puzzling Pangaea

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson students will work collaboratively to research information in order to prove or disprove if a super continent ever existed. Students will create a model of Pangaea to show how their research findings 'connect' in a puzzle...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Earth Science: Plate Tectonics I: Geologic Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on the development of plate tectonic theory. Discussion includes the evidence of Pangaea, and the processes of seafloor topography and seafloor spreading. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Ted Ed Lesson: Bringing a Pop Up Book to Life

For Students 9th - 10th
In 'The Pangaea Pop-up' Lesson, animator Biljana Labovic decided the best way to illustrate moving, shifting tectonic plates was to use a physical object that could also move and shift. Here, Labovic explains how she and her team of...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Mesozoic Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How Pangaea split apart and formed the Atlantic Ocean.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Mesozoic Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How Pangaea split apart and formed the Atlantic Ocean.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Paleozoic Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How plate tectonics formed Pangaea.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Jurassic Period O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn a few facts about the Jurassic period from this interactive Ology card that also includes questions that can be answered. There is some information about Pangaea and dinosaurs.
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Triassic Period O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Review essential information about the Triassic Period on this short, interactive card. Includes facts about Pangaea. Try answering questions when you're finished.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: All About Plate Tectonics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Simple discussion of plate tectonics and Pangaea. Includes maps and interactives.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Paleozoic Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
How plate tectonics formed Pangaea. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Earth's Plates

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to the theory of plate tectonics. Continental drift theory and Pangaea are also discussed.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Plate Tectonics Through Earth History Study Guide

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about the movement of tectonic plates throughout Earth's history. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Cenozoic Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How in the most recent age, Pangaea broke apart and made modern plate tectonics.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Cenozoic Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How in the most recent age, Pangaea broke apart and made modern plate tectonics.
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University of California

Ucmp: Wegener (1880 1930)

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete biographical information with links to his theories. Contains links to interactives on plate tectonics.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The Great Continental Drift Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A unit on plate tectonics designed for middle school young scholars, this page must be read carefully to find the activities to be done in the class, but it provides a wealth of background for the teacher as well.
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Other

Paleomap Project: Earth History

For Students 9th - 10th
The PALEOMAP Project illustrates the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years. Includes virtual 3D paeloglobes.
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Other

Hartao: An Introduction to Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduces South African Alexander Toit as naming Gondwanaland and Laurasia.
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Plate Tectonics: The Origin of Plate Tectonic Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover Alfred Wegner's ideas relating to continental drift and seafloor spreading which are both evidence to the concept of plate tectonics.

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