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Lesson 2 Plate Boundaries

This lesson focuses on tectonic plates, their movement, and the different types of plate boundaries. Students will engage in activities including watching a video, discussing predictions, and researching various plate boundaries. The lesson includes tasks for labeling diagrams, peer assessments, and a homework assignment on plate boundaries.

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Lesson 2 Plate Boundaries

This lesson focuses on tectonic plates, their movement, and the different types of plate boundaries. Students will engage in activities including watching a video, discussing predictions, and researching various plate boundaries. The lesson includes tasks for labeling diagrams, peer assessments, and a homework assignment on plate boundaries.

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For this lesson you will need…

• A pen
• A pencil
• Some paper or your exercise book
• Assignment 2 – Plate Boundaries
• Your brains and listening ears!

Achievement points ready to be given out for excellent work


and engagement!
Find the 10 words in the grid by joining the
Do Now chopped up pieces together e.g. boundary and
write them down.

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Title: What are tectonic plates?
Learning objective: To explain what a tectonic plate is
and to describe the different ways in which they move.
Why do plates move?
We are about to watch a video explaining this.

In pairs, come up with a prediction about why plates move.

A plate is a segment of the Earth’s crust.


LO: How do plates move and creates different boundaries?

Why do plates move?


Task Success Criteria
Use the information from the video, the diagram and the  Use accurate and relevant
words below to explain why plates move. geographical terminology
 Magma  Refer to the diagram in your
 Heats up answer
 Cools  Detailed explanation of the
 Convection currents sequence
 Float

Extension
What impacts do you
think convection currents
have on the surface of
the Earth?
LO: How do plates move and creates different boundaries?
Task Success Criteria
Use the information from the video, the diagram and the  Use accurate and relevant
words below to explain why plates move. geographical terminology
 Magma  Refer to the diagram in your
 Heats up answer
 Cools  Detailed explanation of the
 Convection currents sequence
 Float

Peer Assessment
Read through your partners answer and give them a
WWW and EBI using the success criteria above.

Example
WWW: You have used some accurate geographical
terminology from the task box and given a detailed
explanation of sequence.
EBI: You could have used all of the words and
referred to the diagram more.
LO: How do plates move and creates different boundaries?

Why do plates move?


Task
Use the statements below to label annotate your diagram:
 The magma cools down and sinks back down to be Extension
What impacts do you think
reheated.
 Heat source from the core. convection currents have on the
 Heated rock from the mantle rises. surface of the Earth?
 Semi-molten rock spreads out carrying the plate.
LO: How do plates move and creates different boundaries?

Self Assessment
Use your red pen to self assess and make any
corrections 
The magma cools Semi-molten rock
down and sinks back spreads out
down to be reheated. carrying the plate.

Heated rock
Heat source
from the
from the core.
mantle rises.
I’m going to show you 2 maps
and I want you to look very
closely at the patterns on them.

What similarities are there?

Why might this be?


The major earthquakes of the world
The major Volcanoes of the world
Any
similarities
?

Why
could
this be?
What does this show?
What are tectonic plates?
Tectonic plates are slabs of the Earth’s crust.
There are two types of crust: oceanic and
continental. The oceanic crust is found under the
sea and it is thinner, but more dense than
continental crust which makes up the land masses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=9YPz9TQW4ZM
The plates move around on the mantle. One
mechanism for moving tectonic plates is slab pull. Watch this video to show how
slab pull works.
Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic Task 1: Answer the questions
plates sink into the mantle. As these older sections
sink, newer and less dense sections of plate are 1. What are tectonic plates?
pulled along behind. Sinking in one place leads to 2. What is the difference
plates spreading apart in other places. between oceanic and
continental crust?
3. What is slab pull?
What are plate boundaries?
Plate boundaries are where two or more tectonic
plates meet. It is an area of a lot of seismic
(earthquake) activity.

There are 4 main types of plate boundary. They are:


• Constructive plate boundary
• Destructive (collision) plate boundary
• Destructive (subduction) plate boundary
• Conservative plate boundary
Task 2 Research!
You will research the 4 different plate boundaries and complete
a table with this information.
What direction do What hazards Give an example Add a
the plates move occur at each of where this diagram /
e.g. towards each e.g. volcanic boundary could draw a
other eruptions be found. diagram

Constructive
boundary

Destructive (collision)
boundary

Destructive
(subduction)
boundary
Conservative
boundary
Good websites to use for your research
• BBC Bitesize – KS3 Geography – Natural Hazards - Plate
Tectonics

• https://www.geographypods.com/introducing-tectonics.html

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/geography-ks3-pl
ate-tectonics/zrc992p

• https://www.coolgeography.co.uk/GCSE/AQA/Restless%20Earth/
Tectonics/Plate%20margins.htm
Collision – the plates move
A B towards each other and are
forced upwards

Conservative – plates
move past each Which plate boundary
other
is which?
What is happening at
each one?

Subduction – the oceanic Constructive – the plates


C plate is forced under the
continental plate
D move away from each
other.
Homework!
Assignment – Plate Boundaries

If you completed your assignment


online, ensure that the sheet is
finished before you press ‘turn in’.
This is just an
example picture.
You are not
If you worked on paper take a looking for an
photo and upload it to your assignment
assignment. about
Shakespeare!

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