This lesson contains 24 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 2 videos.
Lesson duration is: 50 min
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§2.1 How the Alps were formed
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Progam
Start
Check your books
Goals of today
Introduction
Information and notes
Experiment
The end
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Check your books
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Goals
After this lesson:
... you know how the Alps were formed
... you know what sedimentary rock and metamorphic rock are
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Alps
Slide 5 - Mind map
Slide 6 - Map
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Highest mountains in Europe
Long time ago there was a huge sea on the site where now the Alps are
Dead remains of plants and animals sank to the bottom and accumulated. Layer upon layer.
Layers become covered with sand and rocks
Creating sedimentary rocks
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Faults in the Earth's crust
Slabs or tectonic
plates
Constantly moving
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The movement of plates
Side by side
To each other
Away from each other
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Formation of the Alps
Endogenic forces
fold mountain range
Mountain range formed when the collision of tectonic plates creates folds in parts of the Earth’s crust.
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Experiment
We are going to mimic the formation of the Alps. The important thing is that you participate, and I don't expect students to fool around.
Equipment:
Cutting board in pairs
Snicker & Mars
Knife (Teacher)
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Steps
1) Get a cutting board
2) The teacher will give you the candy bars
3) Wait for the order to open the candy bar
4) Throw the papers of the candybars in the thrash can
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Steps
5) Gently press the mars against the snicker on the cutting board. They should go together. Be careful! 6) Wait for the teacher to come by, to cut the snicker and mars in half 7) Watch the explanation of the teacher 8) At the end you can eat the candybars
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Sedimentary rock
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Formation of the Alps
Endogenic forces
fold mountain range
Mountain range formed when the collision of tectonic plates creates folds in parts of the Earth’s crust.
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Fold mountain range
A lot of pressure
Rock changes due to pressure --> metamorphic rocks
From limestone to marble
People use this rock for houses and buildings
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Let's go to work
Get started with the first assignments of §2.1 VWO: assignment 1a (topography), 4, 5 and 7
Finished? Then make of §2.1 assignments 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 and 10
Lesson duration is: 50 min
