A Data Rich Exercise for Discovering Plate Boundary Processes

摘要: “Discovering Plate Boundaries” is a classroom exercise based on four world maps containing earthquake, volcano, topography, and seafloor age data. A novel aspect of the “jigsaw” manner in which student groups access use them to discover, classify, describe plate boundary types. The takes three 50 minute class periods complete involves students making presentations one another small whole class. are first organized into where they work together become “specialists” particular data type. They later reorganized specialist each type study boundaries tectonic plate. concludes with their group work, followed by presentation teacher discussion. useful at wide variety levels because it only observation description. We have used successfully mid...