Map Quest
(Graphing in the Physical Sciences)

Grade: 8

Subjects: Science, Mathematics and Social Studies

Description:

This unit deals with various ways to record and graphically represent data in the physical sciences.  In these lessons, the student will map an imaginary ocean floor, chart the erosion of beaches, explore plate-techtonics, reconstruct ocean surface currents and participate in an archeological dig in their classroom.
Lesson 1:
 Indiana Bones... In Search of the Missing Homework
Lesson 2:
 Sounding our the Sea Floor
Lesson 3:
 Floating Continents
Lesson 4:
 Surface Currents
Lesson 5:
 Shoreline Erosion

Created by:

Bryan Barnett, Patricia Ryan and Judy Staats
Summersville Junior High School
Nicholas County, West Virginia