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Alfred wegner7/2/2023 ![]() It provides each student with his or her own physical model of the Earth’s plates and helps teach how hard it is to accurately portray a sphere (three-dimensional) on a flat map (two dimensional). Overview: This activity creates a mini globe that shows the major plate boundaries of the world. Ask students if they can think of other types of evidence to search for that might be useful in solving their puzzle. Using the presence of the same rock types is another form of evidence, and the presence of the same type and age fossils is yet another. Student groups arrange the pieces using Key to Wegener’s Evident to support their arrangement and present and defend their reconstruction. Students should understand that using the shape of the continents to fit them back together is using one type of evidence. Students cut and color pieces of the continents according to fossil evidence. Overview: Teacher presents overview of Wegener’s theory of plate tectonics.
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