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The document describes four activities related to continental drift: 1) Drawing fossils and reconstructing Pangaea to show evidence of drifted continents fitting together. 2) Labeling layers of the Earth and describing their composition. 3) Working in groups to fit torn pieces of newspaper or magazines back together, relating this to evidence for continental drift. 4) Drawing the continents and showing the direction they drifted from the supercontinent Pangaea to their current positions.

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Activity 2-Earth Dynamic2

The document describes four activities related to continental drift: 1) Drawing fossils and reconstructing Pangaea to show evidence of drifted continents fitting together. 2) Labeling layers of the Earth and describing their composition. 3) Working in groups to fit torn pieces of newspaper or magazines back together, relating this to evidence for continental drift. 4) Drawing the continents and showing the direction they drifted from the supercontinent Pangaea to their current positions.

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Activity 2 • Draw fossils of plants and animals as evidences found in the present

Our Dynamic Earth continents that will help solve the puzzle in the fitting of the drifted
continents.
Objectives: • Reconstruct and describe Pangaea.
• Describe the properties of the layers of the Earth. • Predict what will happen to the world as the continents continuously
• Tell the composition of the layers of the Earth. move.

Procedure: Materials:
1. Label the drawing corresponding to the Earth’s layers. • photocopy of the seven continents • world map • pair of
2. Describe the different layers of the Earth using symbols. scissors
3. Choose from the response grid on the right the symbol that you need
to finish the figure on the left. Procedure:
4. Draw the symbol/s in the corresponding layer of the Earth. 1. Cut carefully the traces of the seven continents. Warning: Be careful
in using the scissors.
2. Sketch the dominant species of plants and animals found in the
continents before and after drifting away from each other.
3. Put the cut-outs together.
Q13. What do the Glossopteris fossils tell us about the early positions of
the continents?
Q14. If Glossopteris fossils were found in Antarctica, what was the
climate of this continent before?
Q15. If the climate and the position of a place are relative to each other,
where then was the initial location of Antarctica 250 million years ago?
Q16. What does the presence of Mesosaurus fossils tell about the initial
location and positioning of South America, Africa, and Antarctica? 4.
Make sure that you put fitting edges of the continents side by side to
form the supercontinent Pangaea.
Q17. What clues are useful in reconstructing Pangaea?
Q18. Which continents do you think were neighbors before?
Q19. Is there a possibility that the current location of a continent would
be different 100 years from now?
Q20. Where do you think was the Philippines located during the time
that the Pangaea existed? Research on how the Philippine islands
emerged.
5. Compare Pangaea with the world map.
6. Now move one continent relative to its current location. Observe
carefully the direction of its motion as it assumes its current location
Guide Questions: and position. Record your observation.
Q3. What element is the most abundant in the Earth’s crust? 7. Do the same procedure to the other continents. Record your
Q4. What elements make up most of the mantle? observations.
Q5. What is the special feature of the upper mantle? Q21. If the continents will continue to move, try to predict the
Q6. How did scientists come to know that the outer core is liquid? Philippines’ location 100 million years from now.
Q7. What materials make up the inner core?
Q8. Is the inner core solid, liquid, or gas? What keeps it in this phase?
Q9. Compare the inner core and the outer core.

Activity 3
Let’s Fit it!
Objectives:
• Find clues to solve a problem.
• Recognize how the Continental Drift Theory is developed.
Materials:
• old newspaper or magazine
• scotch tape
Procedure:
1. Do this activity in a group of five to six members.
2. Obtain a set of torn newspaper page or magazine page from your
teacher.
3. Try to fit the pieces together.
4. Use a tape to connect the pieces.
Q10. What features of the newspaper helped you to connect the pieces
perfectly?
Q11. How do the lines of prints or texts in the newspaper help you to
confirm that you have reassembled the newspaper/magazine page?
Q12. Show proofs that the newspaper is perfectly reassembled.

Activity 4
Drifted Supercontinent!
Objectives:
• Tell the possible direction of motion of the continents as they drifted
away.

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