Actvity Summary: In this activity, students will use actual data from historic oceanographic cruises to examine sea floor spreading. They will also model sea floor spreading at a spreading center such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
- Standard A: Unifying concepts and processes in science
- Standard B: Science as inquiry
- Standard C: Physical science
- Standard E: Earth and space science
- Standard F: Science and technology
- Patterns
- Cause and effect
- Scale, proportion, quantity
- Energy and matter
- Stability and change
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Developing and using models
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- ESS1. C The history of the planet Earth
- ESS2.A Earth materials and systems
- ESS2.B Plate tectonics and large-scale system interactions
- ESS2.C The roles of water in Earth’s surface processes
- PS1.A Structure of matter
- PS2.A Forces and motion
- PS2.B Types of interactions
- PS3.B Conservation of energy and energy transfer
- PS3.C Relationship between energy and forces