All About Plate Tectonics: upper KS2 geography and science unit, 24 pages, 10 lessons, no prep.

Why do we have volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis, and why do the continents look like puzzle pieces? This 24-page pupil booklet for Year 6-7 explains plate tectonics with information texts, a reading quiz, two games, a Pangaea puzzle, a story and a tsunami experiment.

What’s inside (24 A4 pages):

• What is plate tectonics? Two-page information text and a reading comprehension quiz
• Plate tectonics board game with game board and cut-out cards
• Pangaea: information text and a cut-out supercontinent puzzle
• Convergent, divergent and transform plate boundaries: one information page each, then a whole-class movement game
• Volcanoes: information text and match each volcano to its type
• Earthquakes: information text, activity and a story
• Tsunamis: information text and the mini-tsunami-in-a-tray experiment
• World map of the tectonic plates and a final investigation linking volcanoes, mountain ranges and earthquakes to the plates

How long: 10 lessons as a full unit. The games and the experiment also work as single lessons.

Good to know: Teacher notes built in, print and go. The experiment needs a tray, water and a few everyday items. The pages use American spelling. Written by a Danish primary teacher.

Suitable for KS2 and early KS3 geography (volcanoes and earthquakes) and science.