SPONSORED EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS STEP INTO Geology LESSON PREP BEFORE YOU BEGIN Prepare for your virtual reality adventure with these tips and guidelines. SET-UP TIPS NAVIGATION TIPS 1. Google Expeditions is a 360-degree experience. The only way students EXPEDITION DETAILS will be able to view the entire scene is by standing and rotating in a When you open an Expedition, you will see a white box with a gray bar full circle while wearing their headsets. Make sure the classroom is on the right side. You can scroll within this box to read more and click prepped for this movement. NOTE: For safety, students should not on the details within the gray bar. Follow the arrows to find the pop-up walk around the room while using the consoles. detail boxes. 2. The first time that you use new technology in a lesson will take longer than planned, but it will get easier as you and the students become RETURN HOME familiar. If you’re new to VR technology, visit edut.to/226XXVz and Return to the home screen by clicking the camera and then the house icon. type “virtual reality tips” into the search field to help you get started. MAIN NAVIGATION 3. Review each Expedition carefully before class so that you are prepared Point your viewer down and a navigation box will pop up. The tools in this to answer any student questions. section include: ® Arrows: Scroll between different sections (or “scenes”) of an Expedition. ® Camera: Navigate to a menu of all the sections of an Expedition. ® “I”: This opens and closes the text boxes. ® Sound: Turns the sound on/off. GOOGLE EXPEDITIONS Google Expedition Florence Google Earth World Tour ® The Duomo Planet Earth ® Urban Density ® Hydrosphere ® Infrastructure ® Lithosphere ® River Arno ® Atmosphere ® Large Population ® Biosphere Christ the Redeemer Statue North Atlantic Ocean ® The Statue ® Continental Shelf ® The Mountain ® Mid-Atlantic Ridge ® Rio de Janeiro ® Abyssal Plains Earth, Texas Mount Everest ® Circular Fields ® Colliding Plates ® Variety of Crops ® Icy Environment ® Town Grid ® Glaciers ® Base Camp IV ® Reaching the Summit Canyonlands National Park ® Colorado Plateau ® Uplift ® Colorado River ® Exposed Rock Layers Lake Zell ® Farms and Fields ® Houses ® Roads ® Forests SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. PHOTO CREDITS: Alex Potemkin/iStock (banner); sankai/iStock (Florence); bluejayphoto/iStock (Lake Zell); Michael Burrell/iStock (pushpin). SPONSORED EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS STEP INTO Geology MOVING PLATES KEY QUESTIONS What is plate tectonics? What is the evidence of continental drift? What do Earth’s physical features and fossil records reveal about how the planet’s surface was formed over the course of 4.5 billion years? KEY STANDARDS MS-ESS2-3 Earth’s Systems Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions. TIME ® What is plate tectonics? (The scientific 4. Wrap up by having students discuss how the Two class periods (70 minutes total). theory that explains the structure continents moved. Based on their findings, Additional time for Final Project. and form of Earth’s crust based on the where would they expect to find areas where interaction of tectonic plates.) plates moved apart, like the Mid-Atlantic MATERIALS ® What are some landforms on Earth that Ridge? Where would they expect to find VR console, Plate Puzzle activity sheet, are caused by plate tectonics? Explain areas where plates collided, like at Mount Google Expedition Google Earth World Tour, the processes that formed these features. Everest? Do their predictions match with the color pencils, scissors, Internet access (For example, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is features that are found on Earth today? an ocean mountain chain created by the pulling apart of two plates; Mount Everest FINAL PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS was caused by two plates colliding; rocks Discuss the different types of boundaries of the Colorado Plateau were lifted up.) between tectonic plates. (For example, DAY ONE divergent boundaries where plates move ENGAGE (5 minutes) EXPLAIN (10 MINUTES) apart and convergent boundaries where plates 1. Project a map showing the patterns of 3. Project the earthquake map again. Ask come together. Plates may collide to form a earthquake occurrences around Earth: bit students to explain the map based on what mountain belt or one may sink beneath the .ly/2Mf6oEw Explain that the highlighting they learned in the Expedition. (Earthquakes other [subduction zone]. They may transform indicates areas where there are frequent often occur along plate boundaries.) Have boundaries when they slide past one another earthquakes. Ask students to make them point out some of the features they horizontally.) Explain that scientists often observations about where the earthquakes observed in the Expedition. use different types of models to better occur. (For example, they will notice they understand these boundaries, such as physical occur mainly along continuous lines; in many DAY TWO representations and computer simulations. places these lines follow the boundaries EVALUATE (30 minutes) Ask students: Why might it be helpful to study of the continents.) Ask the class to make 1. Briefly discuss what students learned about models of plate boundaries? (For example, you predictions about what causes this pattern. plate tectonics in the Google Expedition might be able to better observe the types of Google Earth World Tour. Tell students that landforms that occur when plates collide or EXPLORE (25 MINUTES) almost 250 million years ago, the continents pull apart.) Have students choose one type of 2. Separate the class into small groups and on Earth were joined together in one plate boundary and create a 3-D model that distribute one VR console to each group. massive landmass called Pangea. Over time, shows what happens when the plates move Explain that students are going to take a the tectonic plates on which the continents along the boundary. tour of some of the geographical features on sit moved to form the globe we are familiar Earth by exploring the Google Expedition with today. Google Earth World Tour. Have students 2. Group students in pairs, encouraging focus on the Planet Earth section of the students to choose a partner they have not Expedition (four scenes: Hydrosphere, worked with before. Hand out the Plate Lithosphere, Biosphere, Atmosphere), Puzzle activity sheet and have students work splitting up the scenes between group in their pairs to complete the sheet. Make members. One member should view the sure the pairs have correctly determined the scene and give a summary of what they organization of the continents in Pangea. learn to their teammates. As they explore 3. Instruct each group to trace the landmass on the scenes, have students gather evidence a separate piece of paper. Have them draw to answer the following questions: the outline of the different continents within ® What are tectonic plates? (Giant the landmass and label each one. Ask them pieces of Earth’s outer crust that move to use a different color to sketch the outline and interact.) of the continents as they look today. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Landforms: Video and Online Quiz from Scholastic Study Jams bit.ly/1nQvHFG This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. PHOTO CREDIT: Alex Potemkin/iStock (banner). SPONSORED EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS STEP INTO Geology A PLATE PUZZLE Geologists have used different types of evidence to determine continents that may have touched in the landmass Pangea. Geological clues to the past location of continents include fossils found on separate continents and nowhere else, as well as coastline shapes that fit together. Cut out the continents along the edges. Then, use the evidence on the map to determine the likely shape of ancient Pangea. Continental Fossil Shelf Fossil Fossil Fossil Fossil PHOTO CREDITS: U.S. Geological Survey (puzzle pieces); Alex Potemkin/iStock (banner)..