Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Wegener and the Continental Drift Hypothesis

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift was refined.
Unit Plan
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.
Article
Story Behind the Science

Story Behind the Science: Development of a Mechanism for Continental Drift [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describing the history of scientific theories about continental drift, and the major researchers involved in this work.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Continental Drift

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes Wegener's continental drift hypothesis and his evidence for it.