In this chapter, you will access Global Positioning System (GPS) data from the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) and analyze the data in a spreadsheet to measure the motion of GPS stations in the Pacific Northwest. From your analyses, you...

Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the science experiements straight to your fingertips. Learn about tectonic plates will Bill Nye as you take part in this interactive lesson and help make learning permanent!

In this instructional activity, young scholars learn about the different kinds of faults and plate boundaries and where they can be found. They research and report on the faults that are present in their state. They are also asked to...

Website for the PBS series "A Science Odyssey." Numerous opportunities to explore the people and discoveries of science.

This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides a brief overview of plate tectonic processes. Includes a labeled illustration, images, and a few questions to check understanding.

This interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey Web site helps you visualize different types of plate tectonic activity and shows the impact this activity has on Earth's surface.

A series of seven instructional, hour-long videos presenting Earth-science topics such as plate tectonics, oceans, climate changes, natural resources, the Sun, and the future of our planet. Closed captioning option provided for each video.

A unit on plate tectonics designed for middle school students, 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.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about geological processes that took place during the Precambrian Era. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How Pangaea split apart and formed the Atlantic Ocean.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How Pangaea split apart and formed the Atlantic Ocean.

This lesson teaches students about tectonic plates, plate boundaries, and their role in earthquakes and volcanoes.

Explains what tectonic plates are, what a divergent plate boundary is and some facts about them, and gives examples of divergent plate boundaries.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Volcanoes most often occur at plate boundaries.

This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on divergent plate boundaries. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers convergent plate boundaries where an oceanic plate meets a continental plate.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers convergent plate boundaries and oceanic plate subduction.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Volcanoes most often occur at plate boundaries.

Covers divergent plate boundaries on land.[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers transform plate boundaries on land and in the ocean.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers transform plate boundaries on land and in the ocean.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes convergent plate boundaries where two continental plates come together.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes convergent plate boundaries where two continental plates come together.