Create a model to illustrate geologic events responsible for changes in the earth's crust 0507.7.1

Links verified 9/19/2014

1. Animations - Plate Tectonics animation
2. Animations in the form of PowerPoint shows are available from the PLATES project at the University of Texas.
3. History - Plate Tectonics: The Rocky History of an Idea
4. How the Plates Move - a lesson from Volcano World [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
5. Mechanisms - explanation of the driving forces behind plate tectonics
6. Paleomap Earth History maps
7. Paleomap VR animations
8. Pangaea to the Present - a study of the history of the Earth's tectonic plates. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
9. Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics - A hands-on exercise about plate tectonics and earthquakes from PBS. (requires Shockwave plug-in)
10. Observe the break up of Pangaea - This animation shows how the locations of continents and islands have changed over the past 150 million years.

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