Plate Tectonics Lesson Plans

Plate Tectonics is an interesting topic to study at school. Below is information to help you design plate tectonics lesson plans for middle schoolers. More Plate Tectonics Lesson Plans are added regularly.

Lesson 1:

What is Plate Tectonics?

Introduction to Plate Tectonics and Layers of the Earth

Characteristics of the Lithosphere and Asthenosphere

Lesson 2:

Understanding Plate Tectonics

How do Plate Tectonics work?

Types of Tectonics Boundaries

(Divergent, Convergent, Transform)

Lesson 3:

Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes

Earthquakes

What Causes Earthquakes?

Lesson 4:

Plate Tectonics and Volcanoes

Volcanoes