Shake It Up3

Reflection:

What is the relationship between the movement of the Earth's layers and earthquakes?

Tweet:

Predict which of your two locations will be prime real estate for building a theme park.

(add lithosphere & asthenosphere to vocab reference)

Imagine: Earth's Layers

Shake It Up Challenge

Imagine: Plate Tectonics & Earthquakes

• Earth’s outer shell, or lithosphere, is not one solid piece. It’s broken up like a cracked eggshell into huge pieces (our continents) and many small pieces called tectonic plates.
• Tectonic plates are continually moving at centimeters per year (usually 5-7 cm).
• Tectonic Plates are pieces of the lithosphere that move around on top of the asthenosphere.

What is the relationship between this movement and earthquakes?

Where do earthquakes occur? How can these areas survive an earthquake? You and your team will become seismologists as you explore how earthquakes occur and the areas that are at risk for such geological catastrophes.

Challenge: ACME Theme Park has decided to go global! ACME is enlisting the aid of several scientists and engineers to determine prime locations around the world to place their theme parks. Soon, ACME will be distributing a list of locations that they feel would be excellent prospects for their park locations. Your job is to prepare a geological risk analysis for each location to determine the best areas for building the theme parks. WARNING: ACME is known for their CRAZY ideas and changing their minds in the mid-project...

Think-Pair-Share:

What is the relationship between the movement of tectonic plates and earthquakes?

Sticky Notes:

"Think" with sticky notes. When you find information about tectonic plates and earthquakes, put a sticky note in the book and write a comment on the sticky note that explains each term in your own words and their relationship. You have 5 minutes.

Essential Questions & Standards

Imagine: Plate Tectonics & Earthquakes

EQ:

Are we able to describe the relationship between plate movements and earthquakes?

EL:

The student will describe the relationship

between plate movements and earthquakes.

• You are responsible for researching the following information that relates to earthquakes. After you research, you will get with your other team members for Accountable Talk.
• Research the following information using the books at your table and my Portaportal:
• Tectonic plate boundaries: convergent, divergent, transform (which boundary is most closely related to earthquakes?)
• The Ring of Fire (what is it and how is it related to earthquakes?)
• Faults (what are they and how are they related to earthquakes?)
• Seismology, seismograph, seismic waves (what are they, how are they related to each other, and how are they related to earthquakes?)
• The Richter Scale (what does it measure?)

Ask:

What is our problem?

How will we solve it?

Are there any limitations?

ACME's List of Prime Locations:

Group 1: New Madrid, MO & Greenland

Group 2: Chile & Charleston, SC

Group 3: South Africa & Indonesia

Group 4: Hawaii & San Francisco, CA

Group 5: Anchorage, AK & Japan

Group 6: New Zealand & Dominican Republic

Group 7: Australia & Las Vegas, NV

Bell Work: 10/14/15

Explain what moves tectonic plates. Describe how an earthquake could occur from this movement. Please state evidence from our classroom discussion and use scientific words.