Tectonic plate boundaries

This is a brief explamation to the Plate Tectonic Boundaries and movements.

Three types of plate boundaries diagram

We can blame plate tectonics for many catastrophes over time – earthquakes, volcanoes, geothermal activity, tsunamis and landslides – while people living on mountain ranges or small islands can thank the work of plate tectonics for providing them with somewhere to live. So what are tectonic plates and how do they cause all this change?

When tectonic plates collide, is it anybody's fault? When plates collide, or converge, the results can be earth-shaking! Graham cracker squares make a safe model of what happens when plates collide!

An anchor chart I made all about plate boundaries: transform, divergent, convergent.

For my structured inquiry, students investigated plate boundaries. Given a specific set of questions, students began by independently resea...