Learning Focus: What are the different types of plate boundaries?

Learning Outcomes

What: Learn the three main types of plate boundaries

How: Create a table to compare 3 types of boundary. Analyse pictures to identify the different plate boundaries

Why: To be able to explain what plate movements take place at each boundary

Key WordsPlate Boundary Constructive Conservative Destructive

Recap• Do you remember what this shows?• How many major plates are there in the world?

– Is it: 4, 9, 20?

Task: Complete your table by recording the information you learn from these animations. The first the section on

constructive plate boundaries.Name of the

boundaryWhat is happening

here?What features do

you find here?

Constructive

Destructive

Conservative

Rift Valley, East Africa

Mount Vesuvius, Italy

Haiti, Earthquake in 2010

1. a few miles a year2. a few meters per year3. a few centimetres per year

Class Vote!

How fast do you think these plates move?

a few centimetres per

year.

DEMONSTRATE

Complete the tasks to increase your understanding of plate boundaries

1. Create a sketch of each of the plate boundaries shown opposite.

2. Write what type of plate boundary it shows.

3. Extension task: Underneath each picture describe what is happening at that boundary.

Which of the 3 plate boundaries do you think these pictures are

showing?Extension: Explain why you think

this.

Picture 1Picture 2

Conservative

Constructive

Homework• Write a short diary entry from the

point of view of 1 plate boundary. • Think about…

–What is your name?–What do you do? –What do you create? –How do you feel?

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Learning Focus: What are the different types of plate boundaries?

Learning Outcomes

What: Learn the three main types of plate boundaries

How: Create a table to compare 3 types of boundary. Analyse pictures to identify the different plate boundaries

Why: To be able to explain what plate movements take place at each boundary

Key WordsPlate Boundary Constructive Conservative Destructive