Topic: Plate tectonics: evidence from fossils, rocks and the seafloor (MS-ESS2-3). Adjust the settings, then copy the prompt.
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Prerequisite skills to check: patterns of Earth's features on maps, such as mountains, volcanoes and ocean trenches (4-ESS2-2); rock layers and fossils as evidence of change over time (4-ESS1-1); reading a world map.
Warm-up idea: Give pairs a cut-up world map and have them fit the continents together like a puzzle. Then ask what, besides shape, could prove the continents were once joined.
Exit ticket idea: Students use one fossil or rock clue and one seafloor clue to explain why scientists think South America and Africa were once joined.
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