Tectonics 3: "LAVA WILL TEAR US APART AGAIN"

Powerpoint and worksheets covering constructive plate boundaries, collision zones and volcanic hot spots.

Starter is an odd-one-out game involving keywords and place names linked to tectonics.

Constructive margins focuses on the Galapagos Islands (Nazca and Cocos Plates) where pupils draw a cross section of the boundary then use clues to annotate key features.

Hot spots and magma plumes are then introduced, linking to the African Rift Valley as a land-based plate boundary above a magma plume. A half-time Plenary looks at the importance of the Rift Valley to human evolution.

Then pupils find the answers to questions about the San Andreas Fault through a comprehension exercise and report back to the class.

The final piece of work is an A3 worksheet which combines constructive, destructive and collision boundaries. Pairs of pupils try to remember as much as they can by summarising their recent learning.

The Plenary returns to the Galapagos and the islands' importance in Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

Includes video links and differentiated questions.

Enough for two lessons...