Investigative Question: What specifically moves the tectonic plates around?

1. Investigative Question: What specifically moves the tectonic plates around? Hypothesis: You can use an “If, Then, Because” statement if it helps, but be sure to include your reason. Observations: = Connections: How do the observations you made in this investigation connect to other things we have done this year or other real life scenarios? Unanswered Questions: What do you want to know based on what you learned/observed during this activity? Big Idea: What specifically moves the tectonic plates around?

2. Investigative Question: What specifically moves the tectonic plates around? Hypothesis: You can use an “If, Then, Because” statement if it helps, but be sure to include your reason. Hypothesis: Observations: = Connections: How does this connect to other things we have done this year or other real life scenarios? Connections: Unanswered Questions: What do you want to know based on what you learned during this activity? Unanswered Questions: Big Idea: What specifically moves the tectonic plates around? Big Idea:

3. Convection in the Mantle “The little blobs that make the plates go.”

4. Convection in a diagram

5. Convection in “Real Life”

6. Convection in “Real Life”

7. Convection isn’t quite as pretty as they make it look in diagrams. It is almost always more “blobily” than they make it look.