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Watch this animation showing the growth of a continent to help you understand plate tectonics better. Continents can grow by accumulating crustal material along their edges at convergent boundaries. In the animation, a terrane carried by a subducting plate is fused to the edge of a continent. The attachment of terranes such as this contributed to continental growth along the west coast of North America.
Summary
| Subject keyword(s) | Earth and space science, Earth processes, Geoscience, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Middle school, Plate tectonics, Plate Tectonics, representation, Student populations |
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| Grade level | Middle School, High School, Informal Education |
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| Intended audience | Learner |
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| Resource type | Audio/Visual, Instructional Material, Tool |
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| Resource format | application, text, text/html |
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| Rights | McDougal Littell
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| Link | http://smartr.edc.org/ |
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| Description | SMARTR provides students and teachers with games, simulations, activities, and career information in mathematics and the sciences. Science topics include earthquakes, chemistry, weather, rocks, the solar system, the body, genetics, and energy. Mathematics topics covered are ratios, probability, measurement, graphing, 3D geometry, equations and statistics. |
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| Title | PRISMS: Phenomena and Representations for the Instruction of Science in Middle School |
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| Description | PRISMS provides annotated reviews describing a resource's phenomenon or representation content alignment and quality of instructional support. The focus is on resources useful to science instruction in middle school. Resources are evaluated for how well they support learning goals in Science for All Americans, Benchmarks for Science Literacy, and the National Science Education Standards. |
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| Title | On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty |
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| Link | http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/ |
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| Description | The Cutting Edge collection is a set of thematic strands on pedagogical and content topics of interest to geoscience education, broadly construed. Current strands cover teaching biocomplexity, early-career faculty development, petrology, and designing effective courses in the geosciences. The collection supports these strands by providing access to the Cutting Edge workshop materials. Therefore resources include instructional materials, activities, datasets, interfaces and tools, pedagogical resources, course development and management resources, assessment instruments, and primary literature and bibliographies. |
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| Title | PRISMS Annotations |
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Content contained within the resource
Visualization ES0808 Observe an animation showing growth of a continent. Continents can grow by accumulating crustal material along their edges at convergent boundaries. Here, a terrane carried by a subducting plate is fused to the edge of a continent. The attachment of terranes such as this contributed to continental growth along the west coast of North America. ! Click the image to see the animation. Jennifer Loomis, TERC
