Plate Tectonics for BeginnersUsing a Series of Simple Drawings

to Illustrate Plate Movement.

This section contains: Plate Tectonics Myth to Theory Modeling Plate Tectonics Plate Tectonic Illustrations

USER NOTE

This presentation requires the teacher to complete some pages by drawing simplified images. Completed versions of these images have not been included because each individual needs to draw them in their own way and style. A set of illustrations that may prove useful, offer guidance, or serve as student manipulatives is provided at the end of the presentation.

Plate TectonicsTracing the Myth to the Theory

Superstition to Uncertainity: The Earth was Shaped by God’s Hand

Grasping at Reality: Catastrophists

Discovery of Basic Paradigm: Two Paradigms Compete and a Different Emerges

Parting of the Waves: New Technology and New Discoveries

Approaching the Truth: Geology Finally has a Unifying Theory

Age of Creativity: The Theory is Refined

Plate Tectonics Illustrations

Plate Tectonics Illustrations

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Plate Tectonics Illustrations

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