Unit C: The Changing Earth

Learn about the Theories of Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics and discover what happens when plates collide!

Build your own seismograph using common household materials.

Students construct a model of a volcano and explore the career of a volcanologist.

The fracking process gets natural gases out of rocks. This process can have effects on freshwater, water quality and even earthquakes!

Radiocarbon dating is a method of radiometric dating. Learn how archaeologists use carbon isotopes to find the age of organic materials at archaeological sites.

The surface of the Earth is constantly moving, and earthquakes and volcanoes occur, because of plate tectonics.

The water in the oceans has travelled vast distances. It has even time spent deep below the surface of the Earth, trapped inside the mineral ringwoodite.

Learn how geologists used radioactive dating to uncover geology shared by both Canada and Australia.

Using a toy dinosaur and some plaster of Paris, learn how dinosaur footprints could become fossils.

Some dinosaurs were very big! Compare the sizes of different dinosaurs to the sizes of familiar objects you see in your community.

Create a model of an erupting volcano and learn about the structures of a stratovolcano in this hands-on activity.