1.
Pangaea Revisited
Focus Question: How do we
know of Pangaea's existence?
2.
Introduction to the Sea Floor
Focus Question: What are the
major components of the seafloor?
3.
Quakes and Plates
Focus Question: What types
of seafloor features are associated with a lot of shallow
earthquake activity? What types of continental features
are associated with earthquakes?
4.
The Puzzling Plates
Focus Question: What are the
different plates that make up the earth's crust?
How do ridges, oceans, and trenches form?
5.
M&M Earth
Focus Question: What are the
different layers seen in a cross section of the earth?
What happens to these layers when they are stressed and
fracture?
6.
Hot Spots!
Focus Question: What are hot
spots and how are they formed? How can we use the ages of
rocks to see the motion of the lithospheric plates?
7.
Investigating the Causes of Tides
Focus Question: Why do we
have high tides and low tides? Why is high tide later each
day?
Why do tidal ranges change?
8.
Shark-Eating Mans
Focus Question: Is it possible
to overfish sharks?
9.
Vegetarian Sharks?
Focus Question: Do sharks
need plants? How is energy transferred through a
typical marine food web?
10.
Sculpting South Carolina (from the S.C. Aquarium Online Curriculum)
http://www.scaquarium.org/curriculum/iexplore/three_five/units/regions/regions_main.htm
Focus Question: How do you
think precipitation, elevation and the geology of an area
affect what
types of wildlife communities you might find there?
