These are the slides used during the Scottsville VA Homeschool Co-Op lesson on Earth Sciences

1. Scottsville Co-Op
EARTH SCIENCE I

2. WHAT IS THE EARTH MADE OF?

3. LAYERS DONKEY! IT’S MADE OF LAYERS!

4. SO IF THE CORE IS LIQUID, ARE WE FLOATING?
• Yes, on large land masses called tectonic plates
• Let’s look at the orange
• The plates touch each other on their boundaries, and
these are called faults

5. ORDER THE TECTONIC PLATE ON EARTH DAY

6. WE ARE LIKE ISLANDS IN THE SEA…

7. BUT, IT’S NOT MY FAULT!!
• There are three types of plate boundaries:
• Transform
• Divergent
• Convergent
• And there are three types of faults:
• Strike-Slip
• Normal
• Reverse

8. PLATES DON’T RESPECT BOUNDARIES

9. A PICTURE WORTH A THOUSAND FAULTS

10. BAD IMAGE, MY FAULT…

11. LET’S LOOK AT THIS AGAIN, SEE THE ARROWS?

12. No, not magic.
BUT WHY ARE THEY
MOVING???

13. CURRENT SLIDE ON CURRENTS

14. TIME TO PLAY WITH STUFF
• Wood example
• Dirt example
• Oreo example

15. VIRGINIA IS A GIANT OREO?

16. HERE’S A SIMPLER LOOK…

17. THREE TYPES OF ROCK (CLASSIC, METAL, PUNK)
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Igneous

18. SEDIMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON

19. GNEISS ROCKS ARE METAMORPHIC

20. IGNEOUS ROCKS, SO HOT RIGHT NOW!

21. YOU ROCK!!!!
THAT’S IT FOR TODAY KIDS!