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A great way to put Pangaea together- [|Wegener's Puzzling Evidence]

Some plate tectoncis songs from Joanna Burns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiHRI_Z2Kgs Layers of the Earth song *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9j1xGaxYzY Another Layers of the Earth song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW23Z94yf24 Crust in Pieces Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyT8Xs6Ab-k Pangaea's Moving Farther Apart Again Song *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkELENdZukI Plate Boundary Rap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1-cES1Ekto Continental Drift: Alfred Wegener Song--show kids this one and they never forget Wegener **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nEUUVPTtUI Volcanoes Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXhHNkC_VKc Continental Drift (or Breaking Up is Hard to Do)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA6oZ4YgKCA It's an Earthquake Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcVwAn8W-jo Earthquakes: Rocks Move Aside Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DppbibMhAXU Aftershock Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe7mfz8dnjw Bill Nye Earthquake Rumble

A fun little dance for a brain break with Sid the Sloth from the movie Continental Drift. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMuJxd2Gpxo

A worksheet to go with a great website [|volcano simulator] that lets you change variables to see what happens to your virtual volcano.

Tomato soup can be used to make a model of how convection works to create plate tectonics[file:Tomato Soup Plate tectonics model.pdf

Tons of great resources at [|Southern Cal. Earthquake center]

Super scary video of earthquakes for the great California Shakeout [|shakeout scenario]

Gail makes a Pangaea flip book

Good Pangaea cutouts are at [|AMNH]

Use granite and basalt from your rock collection. Kids can compare by feeling them or measure their density for a density review. The basalt (ocean floor rock) is much denser than granite (main continental rock) which is why ocean plates subduct under continental plates.

Ron W makes layers of PB and J sandwiches and then pulls pushes and twists them to demonstrate the forces at plate boundaries and what they do to layers of the earth.

pg 202 student edition - demonstrating liquefaction Also demo liquefaction with a steel ball in rice- shake the rice and the steel ball will sink.

Borrow the shake table from Pete- pahearn@psusd.us and challenge the kids to build structures that will stand up to the shake.

There is a good united streaming clip by Smashlab simulating an earthquake.

Use the CPO slinkies to let kids demo s-waves and p-waves. Tie yarn in a few places to help them see-especially for the p-waves. You can also try racing p-waves and s-waves.