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Lesson Template – Direct Teach

AUTHORS’ NAMES: Almira Akinpelu

TITLE OF THE LESSON: The Earth’s Got Moves

TECHNOLOGY LESSON: NO / YES: Yes, students will use Chromebooks to play Kahoot and
research plate boundaries for their Frayer Model Vocabulary Sheet

DATE OF LESSON: February 27, 2020

LENGTH OF LESSON: About 50 minutes
NAME OF COURSE: 6th grade science
SOURCE OF THE LESSON:
https://create.kahoot.it/details/plate-tectonic-review/b5af62e3-9a35-47ae-a5ba-
9637e3fee4c8
https://www.learner.org/wp-content/interactive/dynamicearth/convergentboundaries/
https://www.learner.org/wp-content/interactive/dynamicearth/tectonicsmap/index.html
https://www.ck12.org/earth-science/ocean-continent-convergent-plate-
boundaries/lesson/Ocean-Continent-Convergent-Plate-Boundaries-HS-ES/
STANDARDS:
TEKS ADDRESSED:
6.2 Scientific investigation and reasoning. The student uses scientific practices
during laboratory and field investigations. The student is expected to:
(E) analyze data to formulate reasonable explanations, communicate valid
conclusions supported by the data, and predict trends.
6.10 Earth and space. The student understands the structure of Earth, the rock
cycle, and plate tectonics. The student is expected to:
(D) describe how plate tectonics causes major geological events such as ocean
basin formation, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building.
ELPS ADDRESSED:
C.1 (E): internalize new basic and academic language by using and reusing it in
meaningful ways in speaking and writing activities that build concept and language
attainment
C.4 (F) write using a variety of grade-appropriate sentence lengths, patterns, and
connecting words to combine phrases, clauses, and sentences in increasingly
accurate ways as more English is acquired

Revised September 2013 – UTeach Tyler

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CCRS ADDRESSED:
IXE3: Describe the motions and interactions of tectonic plates
CONCEPT STATEMENT:
Knowing what the plate boundaries are and what occurs when the Earth’s plates move,
gives people insight on what kind of environment they are living in and give them the option
to move if needed. Students are able to connect what they learn about geography and
human living habits in social studies to what they learn in science about how mountains,
volcanoes, and earthquakes are formed by a moving Earth. This connection makes sense of
why places like Japan have frequent tsunamis and that it might not be a safe place to live if
you’re not used to the precautions needed, or why one day California and other coastal
areas may be underwater.

RESOURCES, SUPPLIES, HANDOUTS:

Frayer Model Vocabulary sheet, construction paper, markers, pencils, sticky notes,
Chromebook, Expo markers

SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS:

Students are not to mark on each other with the markers by keeping markers closed when
not in use, then returned to their bins

ELEMENT WHAT TEACHER DOES… WHAT STUDENT DOES…

FOCUS Give students construction
paper and demonstrate how to
create name plate.
Remind students of their options
for tectonic plates
Follow instructions on how to
create name plate by folding
paper in half, drawing one of the
tectonic plates then writing
their name on both sides of the
paper

Use name plate cards to call on

students throughout lesson

How many total tectonic plates Answer: 20

are there?
- 20 Answer: 6
How many major plates do we
focus on?
- 6
RATIONALE / Student will be able to describe N/A

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OBJECTIVE how plate tectonics cause

earthquakes, mountain building,
or volcanic eruptions by
completing a Frayer Model
Vocabulary sheet
INSTRUCTIONAL Review types of plates, plate Play Kahoot on Chromebook
INPUT motions, and geological events
through hosting Kahoot

What other geological feature is

Answer: earthquakes
created by the collision of an
oceanic and continental plate?
- Earthquakes and
volcanoes Answer: volcanoes
What other geological feature is
created by the collision of two
oceanic plates? Answer: oceanic ridge
- Volcanoes
What other geological feature is
created by the divergence of
two plates?
- Oceanic ridge
TEACHER MODELING - Demonstrate how to fill Watch teacher and answer
out the Frayer Model questions
using continental crust
- Continental crust goes in
oval
- The definition goes in the
top left corner
- Facts go in the top right
corner
- Examples and a drawing
go in the bottom left
corner
- Non-examples go in the
bottom right corner

Answer: the Earth’s crust

What does continental crust
mean?
- The thick part of the
Earth’s crust that forms
large landmasses Answer: it makes up the

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What are some facts about continents

continental crust?
- Makes up the continents
and less dense than
Answer: anywhere land is
oceanic crust
Where is continental crust
found?
- On the outside layer of Answer: oceanic crust
the Earth and anywhere
land is
What is something that is not
continental crust?
- Oceanic crust
CHECK FOR Why is it important to know Answer: the types of plates tell
UNDERSTANDING what the plates are and their what will happen if they collide
boundaries? or separate and tell if an
- It tells us what kind of earthquake or volcano will
geological event occurs happen there
like an earthquake or how
a volcano was formed
there
GUIDED PRACTICE - Give students Frayer Select one of the three plate
Model Vocabulary sheet boundaries by taking one
- Describe a different box randomly from a bag
for each of the plate
boundaries
- Walk around to make sure
students stay on task and
answer questions as
needed
Answer: mountains

What kind of natural event do

convergent boundaries create?
- Mountains Answer: two plates moving
Where can you find divergent away from each other
boundaries?
- Two plates moving away
from each other
INDEPENDENT - Have students raise their Raise hand if unsure of how to
PRACTICE hand if still unsure of how fill out Frayer Model.
to fill out Frayer Model
- Walk around to make sure If hand isn’t raised, take time to

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students stay on task fill out the Frayer Model

Vocabulary sheet using
Chromebooks
- Have students put away
Chromebooks when
Which boundary causes sea- finished
floor spreading?
- Divergent boundaries
Answer: divergent boundaries
Earthquakes are an example of
which boundary?
- Transform
Answer: transform
CLOSURE Put blank plate tectonics map Find their number on map and
on screen and instruct students fill out the sticky note
to answer questions on a
numbered sticky note
- They are to find on the
map where their number
is
- On sticky note they put
their name, what plates
are involved and their
types, type of boundary
that occurs there, and
what geological event
occurs there
- Answers may vary Answer: they will form a trench
depending on location and/or a volcano

If the Antarctic and Pacific plate

were to collide, what would
happen?
- Since they are both
oceanic plates, a trench
forms and a volcano
could form as well

ASSESSMENTS/RUBRI See page 9

CS
ACCOMMODATIONS Student can use Chromebook or
Frayer model to complete the
sticky note
MODIFICATIONS Student can write what the two
plates are and what type they

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are for their assigned number

EXTENSIONS Student can tell what kind of
precautions a person would
need to know to live at their
assigned number

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Name Plate Example

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Divergent Convergent Transform

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Divergent Convergent Transform

Divergent Convergent Transform

Divergent Convergent Transform

Divergent Convergent Transform

Divergent Convergent Transform

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Key to Blank Tectonic Plate Boundaries

- what plates are involved and their types, type of boundary that occurs there, and
what geological event occurs there
- graded on a 4 point scale: 1 for each type of plate, 1 for type of boundary, and 1 for
at least one geological event

1. North American (continental) and Pacific (oceanic)

a. Transform
b. Earthquake

2. North American (oceanic) and Eurasian (oceanic)

a. Divergent
b. Mid-ocean ridge (seafloor spreading)
c. Volcano

3. Australian (oceanic) and Antarctic (oceanic)

a. Divergent
b. Mid-ocean ridge (seafloor spreading)
c. Volcano

4. South American (oceanic) and African (oceanic)

a. Divergent
b. Mid-ocean ridge (seafloor spreading)
c. Volcano

5. Eurasian (continental) and African (continental)

a. Convergent
b. Mountains

6. African (oceanic) and Australian (oceanic)

a. Convergent (trench)
b. Divergent (mid-ocean ridge)

7. Eurasian (continental) and Pacific (oceanic)

a. Convergent (volcano)
b. Divergent (mid-ocean ridge)

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