My Curriculum Web

My curriculum web is called The Rolling Earth. It is designed for middle school students studying earth science, but it can be easily adapted for upper elementary and high school students. The left margin of the table contains the table of contents for the webpage. Teachers will find the Curriculum Guide section to be useful. This section explains the content and the benchmarks that are covered in this curriculum web.

There are three activities that are included in this web. All of the activities are listed in the activities page. I included a “Before you get started” section in each activity to motivate the students or provide students with some background knowledge to complete each activity. In Activity 1, students will map out locations of volcanoes and earthquakes on a world map. They will use critical thinking to conclude that earthquakes and volcanoes occur in the same area, such as plate boundaries. I like this activity, because the students make the important conclusion themselves without me telling them, and it’s interdisciplinary. In Activity 2, students will view a PowerPoint that will give them the knowledge they need to complete the activity. Then, they will build a fault model and follow the directions to understand the three different types of faults. In Activity 3, students will watch two movie clips from United Streaming to get the needed information to complete this activity. Then, students will determine the epicenter of a Michigan earthquake by using the Mercalli scale. This is a wonderful activity, because it hits several standards. The rubrics for all three of these activities are found in the Assessment page.

There are a few more tools in the curriculum web that students can use to help their understanding of the content presented in this web. They can go to the Online Assessment section to test their understanding of the content. They can go to the Vocabulary section to get the meanings of words pertaining to earthquakes. They can extend their knowledge by visiting the Resources section.

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