6th grade

8.0 Volcanoes

8.0 Volcanoes
 

7.4 Staying Safe in Earthquakes

7.4 Staying Safe in Earthquakes

 

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe different types of earthquake damage.
  • Describe the features that make a structure more earthquake safe.

7.3 Measuring and Predicting Earthquakes

7.3 Measuring and Predicting Earthquakes

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe how seismologists can use seismic waves to learn about earthquakes and the Earth’s interior.
  • Describe how to find an earthquake’s epicenter.

7.2 Nature of Earthquakes

7.2 Nature of Earthquakes

Lesson Objectives

  • Be able to identify an earthquake focus and its epicenter.
  • Identify earthquake zones and what makes some regions prone to earthquakes.

7.1 Stress in Earth's Crust

7.1 Stress in Earth's Crusts

Lesson Objectives

  • List the different types of stresses that change rock.
  • Compare the different types of folds and the conditions under which they form.

7.0 Earthquakes

7.0 Earthquakes

6.4 Theory of Plate Tectonics

6.4 Theory of Plate Tectonics

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe what a plate is and how scientists can recognize its edges.
  • Explain how the plates move by convection in the mantle.

6.3 Seafloor Spreading

6.3 Seafloor Spreading 

Lesson Objectives

  • List the main features of the seafloor: mid-ocean ridges, deep sea trenches, and abyssal plains.
  • Describe what seafloor magnetism tells scientists about the seafloor.

6.2 Continental Drift

6.2 Continental Drift

Lesson Objectives

  • Be able to explain the continental drift hypothesis.
  • Describe the evidence Wegener used to support his continental drift idea.

6.1 Inside Earth

6.1 Inside Earth

Lesson Objectives

  • Compare and describe each of Earth's layers.
  • Compare some of the ways geologists learn about Earth’s interior.
  • Define oceanic and continental crust and the lithosphere.

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