The next time you teach plate tectonics, consider a draw-with-me presentation that will engage your students and help them understand the spatial and movement aspects of plate boundary environments.

I have used the illustrations in this booklet, with only minor modifications, to lead students from primary grades through graduate school in lessons about plate movements, volcanoes, earthquakes, and the …

A good lesson plan that demonstrates plate tectonics through easy-to-draw illustrations. This plate tectonics lesson plan can easily be adapted for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university …

Plate Tectonics Teaching Plate Tectonics with easy-to-draw illustrations is fun and effective.

A generalized diagram showing the lithospheric situation associated with the formation of convergent, divergent, and transform plate boundaries. Illustration prepared by the United States Geological Survey.

Here the Nazca Plate is subducting beneath the South American plate. Visit the Interactive Plate Boundary Map to explore satellite images of convergent boundaries between oceanic and …

When you look at the transform fault diagram, imagine the double line as a divergent plate boundary and visualize which way the diverging plates would be moving.

Visit the Interactive Plate Boundary Map to explore satellite images of divergent boundaries between continental plates. Two locations are marked within the rift valley of East Africa, and another location …

Teaching Plate Tectonics: Use these easy-to-draw illustrations to teach your students about plate tectonics. Step-by-step teaching plan that can be modified for a variety of grade levels.

Continents and ocean basins are moved and changed in shape as a result of these plate movements. The sequence of maps on this page shows how a large supercontinent known as Pangaea was …