Friday, October 2, 2015

Tectonic Plates and how they work

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This week we learned about plate tectonics. We learned about how they collide together and they move. There are only two kinds of plates. Oceanic and continental. The things that they can do are what really though that is what makes up some of are earth.So they can move in ways that what makes things like volcanoes mountain and things like that.


SP2: Developing and using models:This  week we made a model. We use three thing frosting,fruit roll ups,and gram crackers. We used the fruit rolls to represent the oceanic crust. We used the frosting to represent the mantle and the gram crackers to represent the continental crust. For example one thing we did was get two graham crackers and get them a little wet on one side of each then we put those sides next to each other and pushed them together . Then they squished and made a bump that represented mountains. So this week was really fun and we even got to eat it after!


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