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Name: __________________________
Date: __________ HR: _______________
Plate Boundary Travel Brochure
DUE DATE: Monday, April 28th, 2014
Now that you’ve had a chance to look globally at all of the plate boundaries, I’d like you to focus in on
one location and explore it in depth. Your assignment is to create a travel brochure that describes a plate
boundary that interests you. Your main resources for this information are series of websites that provide data
about plate boundaries, including many of the sites from which the data on your maps was gathered. The
websites are all available as links through my webpage.
General Expectations: (PLEASE SEE YOUR GRADING RUBRIC FOR MORE SPECIFICS)
________ Body text is typed in 12-point Times New Roman font. (Heading and title text can be
different fonts, but don’t waste space.)
larger and in
________ Body text is organized into multiple headings. (i.e. Facts about the Plate Boundary, Famous Land Features:
Volcanoes, Earthquake Sites, Ridges, Mountains or Trenches)
________All six panels contain text. (Plan to write a lot and then cut out what you don’t need when assembling the
final project.)
________ No more than 4 total images.
________You will be asked to complete a final evaluation rubric assessment upon completion of this assignment.
This will be completed when the assignment is turned in.
THIS IS A TRI-FOLD!!!!
All About Plate Tectonics - Interactive and colorful site on plate
tectonics
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Contine
nts.shtml
Magnetostratigraphy - Magnetostratigraphy is a chronostratigraphic
technique used to date sedimentary and volcanic stratigraphic sections.
Learn about it at this site.
http://magstrat.com/Magnetostr.html
On-Line TUTORIAL: This site was designed to allow students to
interactively learn about Plate Tectonics and related phenomena. There
are learning modules and activity modules. Learning modules are
mostly text with little interaction. Students who function at different levels may use this site. The Southern California
Integrated GPS Network Education Module.
scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/index.htm
On-Line TUTORIAL: A tour of volcanoes in the United States. It is an excellent tutorial in volcanism. Teachers will find
this site useful as will middle and high school students. This site also includes a great tutorial on Plate Tectonics. United State
Geological Survey.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volcus/
On-Line TUTORIAL: This site was designed to allow students to interactively learn about Plate Tectonics and related
phenomena. There are learning modules and activity modules. Learning modules are mostly text with little interaction.
Students who function at different levels may use this site. The Southern California Integrated GPS Network Education
Module.
http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/index.htm
PBS: Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker - Move any of the four tectonic plates to start an earthquake, make land masses
collide, spread the seas, or initiate your own continental drift.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/
Plate Motion - Daily position estimates are determined from satellite signals which are recorded by GPS receivers on the
ground. Data from the IGS, SCIGN, BARD, CORS, BARGEN, and PANGA networks have been analyzed at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, CA Institute of Technology.. Horizontal velocities, mostly due to motion of the Earth's tectonic plates
and deformation in plate boundary zones, are represented on the maps by arrows extending from each site.
http://sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov/mbh/series.html
Plate Motion Calculator - online plate velocity calculator from UNAVCO.
http://sps.unavco.org/cru
Tasa Graphic Arts Company - has produced state of the art multimedia products for use in the Earth Science and
Environment Science Classrooms. Of particular interest are interactive CD-ROMs on the Theory of Plate Tectonics, Plate
Tectonics and How the Earth Works, the Dynamic Earth, Plate Tectonics 3-D Puzzle, as well as Hands-On Mineral
Identification and the Wonder of Rocks and Minerals, among others. They provide online ordering. To receive a 15%
discount for teachers who visit the GSA website, contact Tasa Graphic Arts to receive a special web address and discount
code.
www.tasagraphicarts.com, e-mail: [email protected], phone: 1-800-293-2725 or (505) 758-5535.
This Dynamic Earth - Read about plate tectonics and continental drift, the development of the theory, and unanswered
questions.
pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.htm
Transforming California is a PowerPoint presentation of digital images exploring the landforms found along the San
Andreas Fault. Designed for classroom use, Transforming California has a complementing narrative for each slide.
http://www.priweb.org/ed/earthtrips/transforming_ca_home.htm