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HS-ESS1-5 2014
HS-ESS1-5:
Evaluate evidence of the past and current movements of continental and oceanic crust and the theory of plate tectonics to
explain the ages of crustal rocks. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the ability of plate tectonics to explain the ages of crustal rocks.
Examples include evidence of the ages oceanic crust increasing with distance from mid-ocean ridges (a result of plate spreading) and the ages of North
American continental crust increasing with distance away from a central ancient core (a result of past plate interactions).]
Tectonics: The theory of plate tectonics provides a framework for understanding the dynamic processes within and on Earth. 5.4.D
Essential Questions
1. How does scientific
understanding build
over time?
2. Why has the Earth
changed over time?
3. How do changes in one
part of an Earth system
affect other parts of the
system?
4. Why have the Earth’s
tectonic plates changed
over time?
Enduring Understandings
1. Science builds upon itself
over time.
2. As new evidence arises and
we acquire new
understandings, old theories
are revised or replaced by
new ones.
3. Earth is a complex system of
interacting rock, water, air,
and life that has evolved over
time.
4. Composition of the soils and
the atmosphere provide the
interfaces for changes in the
composition of the Earth’s
systems.
5. Theories governing the
movement of lithospheric
plates were developed over
time through the analysis of
Earth materials.
Labs, Investigation, and Student Experiences
5.4.12.D
Websites/Labs
● National Science Digital Library, Science Digital
Literacy Maps
● The Physical Setting: Plate Tectonics:
http://strandmaps.nsdl.org/?id=SMS-MAP-0049
● Common Themes: Models:
http://strandmaps.nsdl.org/?id=SMS-MAP-2408
● Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, And Impact
Craters
http://gis.esri.com/industries/education/arclessons/search_res
ults.cfm?id=301
● Earth Science Literacy Principles. Published May 2009
http://www.earthscienceliteracy.org/
● United States Geological Survey, The Dynamic
Earth(2009)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html
● Geological Society of America, Plate Tectonics Lesson
Plans
http://www.geosociety.org/educate/LessonPlans/s_tecton
.htm
HS-ESS1-5 2014
Content Statements
Convection currents in the
upper mantle drive plate
motion. Plates are pushed
apart at spreading zones
and pulled down into the
crust at subduction zones.
Evidence from lava flows
and ocean-floor rocks
shows that Earth’s
magnetic field reverses
(North – South) over
geologic time.
21st Century Life and
Careers
Cumulative Progress
Indicators
Explain the mechanisms for plate
motions using earthquake data,
mathematics, and conceptual
models. 5.4.12.D.1
Calculate the average rate of
seafloor spreading using archived
geomagnetic-reversals data.
5.4.12.D.2
Common Core Standards
Connections
9.3HL.1-.6
9.3ST.1-.6
ELA/Literacy: RST.11-12.1 RST.1112.8 WHST.9-12.1 WHST.9-12.2
SL.11-12.4
Mathematics: MP.2 MP.4 HSN-Q.A.1
HSN-Q.A.2 HSN-Q.A.3 HSA-SSE.A.1
HSA-CED.A.2 HSA-CED.A.4 HSFIF.B.5 HSS-ID.B.6
HS-ESS1-5 2014
Desired Results
Open Ended/ EOC Response Items:
1. The diagram above shows a cross section of the edge of
a continent. In this region a section of oceanic crust is
gradually moving down under a section of continental
crust. Explain how the mountain range near the seacoast
on this continent was probably formed.
2. Why are the magnetic bands in the eastern Pacific
Ocean so far apart compared to the magnetic bands
along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?