A classroom exercise designed to allow students to discover the properties of tectonic plates and their boundaries.
Dale S. Sawyer (dale@rice.edu)
Department
of Earth Science
Rice University
Houston, Texas
"Discovering Plate Boundaries" has been used with students from Eighth Grade to Undergraduates at Rice University. The best intro to the exercise is found in the Student Handout and Teachers Guide which can be downloaded below.
DRAFT - Teachers Guide Material
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I make available a kit which contains all the unique materials required for the exercise. It contains the 4 data maps (24 by 36 in) printed on glossy photo quality paper, as well as the essential materials available below. The kit costs $80 which just covers the cost of making it. Just having the 4 maps printed at a commercial printer would cost several hundred dollars.
Teacher's Kit Order Form (pdf)
Free download of the components of the kit
