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The lithosphere (Earth's crust) is a hard, rigid plate on top of a softer molten layer known as the asthenosphere. Sounds like an Oreo to me! As a crude analogy that lets you bring food into the classroom, this lesson on plate boundaries sound like a winner. Read this for an academic article on how to use Oreo's to teach about Earth's crust. 
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Pangaea - the idea of Pangaea and some of the evidence behind it...
This is a video produced by Khan Academy, which is a key resource and proponent for the 'flipped classroom.' While they do not have many human geography resources (math is their specialty) they do have several video designed for teaching physical geography including this one that covers Via Greenroom Dweller
Michelle Winemiller's curator insight,
January 22, 2015 2:22 PM
great source with the video information and fossil evidence for students to get good reinforcement |
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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards...
This map represents the 1079 earthquakes with magnitudes higher than 2.5 that have occured in the last 30 days. You can customize the map to display different data at any scale. There is detailed information about each earthquake in this great dataset.
Renee John's comment,
June 1, 2019 9:07 AM
This is a great resource. Being in real time really helps to put things into perspective for students.
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