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Help your students explore plate tectonics with the Plate Tectonics Virtual Lab Activity with Guided Student Worksheets & Geology Simulation!

Designed to promote scientific inquiry, this no-prep interactive virtual lab activity allows students to explore convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries using an NGSS-aligned phenomena-based science simulation! The student worksheet guides students through the simulation to ensure comprehension and understanding, while also encouraging students to make predictions, observations, analyze data, and form conclusions. Check out the preview to see more!

Skills Students Will Practice:

⚗️ Test their Pre-Existing Knowledge of Plate Tectonics

⚗️ Identify the difference between Convergent, Divergent, & Transform Boundaries

⚗️ Analyze how Plate Boundary Movement results in new structures over time

⚗️ Describe how Plate Movement can result in Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity

⭐ This Activity is Perfect for:

⚗️ Middle school and high school science lessons

⚗️ NGSS-aligned science instruction

⚗️ Virtual labs for blended, digital, or distance learning

⚗️ Sub plans, enrichment, or independent practice

NOTE: This activity links to the free Interactive from SEPUP. Check it out below!

Plate Tectonics

Purchase includes the 3-page Student Worksheet (PDF), 3-page Teacher Answer Key (PDF), and 3-page Digital Student Worksheet (Google Slides) that is hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key.

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VIRTUAL LEARNING

This lab comes with a Google Slides version of the Student Worksheet hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key - this lab is designed for digital and face-to-face learning!

❗Permission is granted to copy pages specifically for student or teacher use only by the original purchaser or licensee. The reproduction of this product for any other use is strictly prohibited. Copying this product in any part and placing it on the Internet (even on a personal website) is strictly prohibited and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).

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Plate Tectonics Virtual Lab Worksheets | NGSS Plate Tectonics Inquiry Simulation

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"My students really enjoyed this activity while I was on maternity leave. It was easy for my sub with no background to also follow."
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"This was a great resource to use with my virtual high school students. They were engaged and loved it. "
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Description

Help your students explore plate tectonics with the Plate Tectonics Virtual Lab Activity with Guided Student Worksheets & Geology Simulation!

Designed to promote scientific inquiry, this no-prep interactive virtual lab activity allows students to explore convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries using an NGSS-aligned phenomena-based science simulation! The student worksheet guides students through the simulation to ensure comprehension and understanding, while also encouraging students to make predictions, observations, analyze data, and form conclusions. Check out the preview to see more!

Skills Students Will Practice:

⚗️ Test their Pre-Existing Knowledge of Plate Tectonics

⚗️ Identify the difference between Convergent, Divergent, & Transform Boundaries

⚗️ Analyze how Plate Boundary Movement results in new structures over time

⚗️ Describe how Plate Movement can result in Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity

⭐ This Activity is Perfect for:

⚗️ Middle school and high school science lessons

⚗️ NGSS-aligned science instruction

⚗️ Virtual labs for blended, digital, or distance learning

⚗️ Sub plans, enrichment, or independent practice

NOTE: This activity links to the free Interactive from SEPUP. Check it out below!

Plate Tectonics

Purchase includes the 3-page Student Worksheet (PDF), 3-page Teacher Answer Key (PDF), and 3-page Digital Student Worksheet (Google Slides) that is hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key.

Looking for more Geology Virtual Labs? Shop these products

⚗️ The Rock Cycle Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Layers of the Earth Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ The Fossil Record Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Geologic Time Scale Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Continental Drift & Pangea Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

VIRTUAL LEARNING

This lab comes with a Google Slides version of the Student Worksheet hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key - this lab is designed for digital and face-to-face learning!

❗Permission is granted to copy pages specifically for student or teacher use only by the original purchaser or licensee. The reproduction of this product for any other use is strictly prohibited. Copying this product in any part and placing it on the Internet (even on a personal website) is strictly prohibited and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).

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My students really enjoyed this activity while I was on maternity leave. It was easy for my sub with no background to also follow.
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Standards

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NGSSHS-ESS2-1
Develop a model to illustrate how Earth’s internal and surface processes operate at different spatial and temporal scales to form continental and ocean-floor features. Emphasis is on how the appearance of land features (such as mountains, valleys, and plateaus) and sea-floor features (such as trenches, ridges, and seamounts) are a result of both constructive forces (such as volcanism, tectonic uplift, and orogeny) and destructive mechanisms (such as weathering, mass wasting, and coastal erosion). Assessment does not include memorization of the details of the formation of specific geographic features of Earth’s surface.
NGSSMS-ESS2-2
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales. Emphasis is on how processes change Earth’s surface at time and spatial scales that can be large (such as slow plate motions or the uplift of large mountain ranges) or small (such as rapid landslides or microscopic geochemical reactions), and how many geoscience processes (such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and meteor impacts) usually behave gradually but are punctuated by catastrophic events. Examples of geoscience processes include surface weathering and deposition by the movements of water, ice, and wind. Emphasis is on geoscience processes that shape local geographic features, where appropriate.
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