Screencast

With this video I would want students to find the three main types of faults found in the United States. The posted video has divergent and convergent boundaries. Also the posted image for the screencast has definitions they will need to apply to a work sheet that deals with their unit on plate tectonics. I did bring a microphone from school to use, so I could talk the viewer through what is expected. There is no sound for either, so I have a computer problem or the microphone I have is not in working order. http://www.screencast.com/users/ScottGardner/folders/Jing/media/c435fcc7-415e-4193-8232-6c0236225f8a

Science lesson using Google maps

I would like to use the Google map for a lesson on plate tectonics. I think the map creating for Google is a great tool. In an Earth Science setting you could create so many informative maps on geologic time, plate tectonics, geologic features and formations, etc.
Here I have created a map of some of the major earth quakes that have been recorded in the United States. I would like students to view the map and review the quakes listed. They will then explain to me if they thought the quakes happened where they expected or if there were some strange locations for some of these. Most middle and high school students only think of California as an area where quakes occur. This is a great way for students to see how plates and zones have a great effect on where quakes occur. I will have them pick a quake from 4 different areas of the United States and explain why they are occuring here. I will be looking for terms like Transform faults, Subduction zones, converging, and diverging as ways to explain what they find.
View Earth Quakes in the United States in a larger map