Evidence for Continental Drift
"Earth looks so peaceful from space! But looks can be deceiving!" (Gregorio, F., 2012).
Connections
Before continuing in this section, Evidence for Continental Drift, lets make some CONNECTIONS to the knowledge you already have stored in your information processor (your brain).
Using your understanding of the words theory, continental, and drift how do you think they can be related?
You may wish to use the following questions to guide you through your brainstorming process:
Now, if you were to put together the words continent and drift how would you relate them? How do they work together
Using your understanding of the words theory, continental, and drift how do you think they can be related?
You may wish to use the following questions to guide you through your brainstorming process:
- When you hear the word “theory” what do you think?
- What is a continent?
- How is it different from a country, a province, etc?
- Does a continent have to be on land?
- What do you think of when you hear the word drift?
- Do you think of?
- Does it imply movement?
Now, if you were to put together the words continent and drift how would you relate them? How do they work together
Take the time to brainstorm your own hypotheses on the Google Document, Plate Tectonics - Evidence for Continental Drift - Individual Thoughts, that was pushed to you through Doctopus. Afterwards join the discussion in the class Google Document, Plate Tectonics - Evidence for Continental Drift - Connections.
Work together to generate as many descriptions as possible.
Work together to generate as many descriptions as possible.