OpenSciEd Unit 6.4 · Lesson 14 · 14.A
Develop and use a model to show the tectonic process…
MS-ESS1-4MS-ESS2-1Assessment opportunity · Formative assessment
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Facilitation guidance from the lesson plan — what to notice in student thinking and how to respond while teaching.
Building towards
14.A Develop and use a model to show the tectonic process of uplift can create mountains at a time scale too large to see.
What to do
- Revisit the puzzle pieces from Lesson 11 and consider the placement of the Indian and Eurasian plates. Determine what had to occur over time for the two plates to have merged together.
- Look back at data (specifically coral reef data) to determine that there was once an ocean between India and Eurasia.
- Discuss what must have happened to the oceanic plate material that used to exist between the two plates based upon the plate movement arrows on the basemap and GPS data, and what life would have once existed in that space.
- Revisit the slow plate folding processes from Lessons 6-9 to determine what occurred when the two plates collided to create the mountains we now see today.