Brainpop: Mountain Types
Folded mountains, fault block mountains, and up-warped mountains are explained in this BrainPOP animated movie. |
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Crusty Stuff
Playing Crusty Stuff to help understand how Earth’s surface has changed over time. |
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Plate Tectonics Concentration Game
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Pangea Game Puzzle
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Seafloor Science
On the seafloor – where no sunlight reaches and pressure is extreme – tectonic plates slowly shift, chimneys spew hot liquid “smoke,” and exotic life forms thrive. Join the VISIONS ’05 expedition to see more.
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Intro to Plate Tectonics
Using animations and graphics, this site describes the forces that may cause the movement of plates. There are links for descriptions and animations of four types of boundaries where tectonic activity occurs. |
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Interactive Subduction Animation
Subduction zones are one of the plate tectonic boundaries. See a subduction zone in action on this web page. |
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K12 Plate Tectonics
Scientists think that the mighty forces of plate tectonics impact our world in enormous ways. Find information on these awesome forces at work. |
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National Geographic: Earthquakes Interactive
Learn about earthquakes. Discover what causes earthquakes, where they occur, and the different types of faults. |
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Mission to the Abyss
Follow Alvin as it performs deep-sea vent exploration off the coast of Mexico. Discover some of the organisms that are found there. Explore the sea-floor geology and meet the crew of the submersible Alvin. |
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Dynamic Earth
This is a well known and established web site that has a lot of plate tectonic information on it. Worth the look! |
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Plate Tectonics Review
Test your knowledge with these review games! |
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Earthquake Module
Students are probed to click links on the left, read background information and then use that information to be successful in a game. |
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USGS Earthquakes for kids
Links to pictures, puzzles & games, and other neat stuff. |
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Volcano Game: Blows its top
Magic School Bus Volcano Game |
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Discovery Kids: Make a volcano
Volcano Interactive |
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Interactive Pangea
Discovery channel lets students see where pangea moves at a certain place in time. |
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Make an Earthquake
Discovery Channel: Earthquake Simulator |
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ETTC Pangea and Plate Tectonics
Great links on this page to animations, games, and studies on tectonics |
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A Science Odyssey
Be sure to click on the plate tectonics activity where you can move plates to see what happens. This site also has great links to learn more about Earth\'s moving plates |
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