Plate Movement and Continental Drift Activity

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Fun addition to an NGSS middle school plate tectonics & Earth’s history unit! There are only 10 boxes to cut, so it doesn’t make a big book, but kids clearly see the progression of the continents over time. Great supplemental activity when teaching seafloor spreading, continental drift, plate tectonics, etc.!

In this activity, students will:

• Color and cut out the provided “flip book” picture boxes.
• Staple the picture boxes to create a “flip book” type project that shows plate movement over millions of years.

Please understand that this continental drift activity doesn’t make a perfect flip book like you might buy in a store, but it’s FUN and the kids get the idea of continental drift. It works better on card stock, but in my classes, I use regular copy paper and find the kids still have a lot of fun with it. Please note: This resource is NOT editable.

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Related Standards:

• NGSS MS-ESS2-1: Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
• NGSS MS-ESS2-2: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.
• NGSS MS-ESS2-3: Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of past plate motions.