Our primary classroom study is understanding that the Earth is constantly changing. We look at the parts of the Earth. We briefly look at plate tectonics. We test minerals. We sort and classify rocks. There are more questions than we have time to explore so please cruise through the websites below and get all your old questions answered and find answers to new your questions.
This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html#anchor20152696
Video clip of Pangea. You may need to press refresh to get the program to load. http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/animate/PLATES_3.MPG
A Public Broadcasting Station website with graphic animations depicting convergent and divergent plate movement. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/hellscrust/index.html
Oceanus, a magazine that explores the oceans depths. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=2512
US Geological Survey, US National Parks Service. Plate tectonics animations. http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/animate/pltecan.html
The Vents Program by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory. Observe what is happening on the ocean floor. A coalition of research groups have pooled infomation. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/index.html