COMMONWEALTH HIGH SCHOOL

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

SY 2020-2021

GRADE (JHS): 10
QUARTER 1: EARTH SCIENCE WEEK: 5-6
MELC: Explain the different processes that occur along plate boundaries.

Learning Competencies: The learners demonstrate understanding of:

1. Identify the different processes that occur along plate boundaries.(S10ES-Iaj-36.3.1)
2. Explain what happens when oceanic crust and continental crust collide.
(S10ES-Iaj-36.3.2)
3. Identify the landforms associated with oceanic and continental crust convergence.
(S10ES-Iaj-36.3.3)

WEEK 5
ACTIVITY # 1A: Converging between Continental and Oceanic Plates

OBJECTIVES :
 Explain the processes that occur along convergent boundaries.
 Determine the consequences of colliding plates.

PROCEDURE:
1. Study Figure 1 showing the cross-sectional diagram of converging continental and
oceanic plates, and
2. Answer the following questions below.

Figure 1 : cross-sectional diagram of converging continental and oceanic plates

GUIDE QUESTIONS:

1. What happens to oceanic plate (Plate A) as it collides with continental plate (Plate
B)?
2. What do you think may happen to the leading edge of oceanic plate (Plate A) as it
continues to move downward? Why?
 3. What do you call the molten materials that ooze out at the edges between two plates?
4. What is formed on top of the continental plate (Plate B)?

5. What other geologic event could take place as the plates continue to grind against
each other?

ACTIVITY # 1B: Converging between two Oceanic Plates

Learning Competencies: The learners demonstrate understanding of:

1. Identify the different processes that occur along plate boundaries. (S10ES-Iaj-36.3.1)
2. Explain what happens when two oceanic plates collide. (S10ES-Iaj-36.3.4)
3. Identify the landforms associated with oceanic plate convergence. (S10ES-Iaj-36.3.5)

OBJECTIVES :

 Explain the processes that occur along convergent boundaries.

 Determine the consequences of colliding plates.

PROCEDURE :

1. Study Figure 2. It shows a cross-section of two converging oceanic plates

(collides each other).
2. Identify the geologic events of features resulting from this collision, using your gained
knowledge from your previous activity.

Figure 2. Cross-sectional diagram of converging oceanic plates

GUIDE QUESTIONS:

1. What are the geologic processes/events that will occur at the plate boundaries due to
the plate movement?
 2. What geologic features might form at the surface of the plate A?
3. If the edge of Plate A suddenly flicks upward, there is a large amount of water may be
displaced. What could be formed at the surface of the ocean?

ACTIVITY # 1C: Converging between two Continental Plates

Learning Competencies: The learners demonstrate understanding of:

1. Identify the different processes that occur along plate boundaries. (S10ES-Iaj-36.3.1)
2. Explain what happens when two continental plate converge. (S10ES-Iaj-36.3.6)
3. Identify the landforms associated with continental plate convergence.
(S10ES-Iaj-36.3.7)

OBJECTIVES:
 Explain the processes that occur along convergent boundaries.
 Determine the consequences of colliding plates.

MATERIAL:
 bond paper

PROCEDURE:
1. Put a piece of paper on top of the table.
2. Place your hands on both ends of the paper. Then, bring your hands closer to each other.
GUIDE QUESTIONS:

1. What happen to the paper as they were pushed from both ends?

2. If the paper represents the earth’s lithosphere, what do you think is formed in the lithosphere?

3. What other geologic event/feature could take place with this type of plate movement?

4. How will you differentiate this type of convergent plate boundary with the other two in terms of
the consequences of the earth’s lithosphere?

GENERALIZATION: