Update: 9-20-21 Mr. Baur is no longer teaching RHL 7th grade math and MS science. He is now a 6-8 River Online teacher.

Mt. Everest Unit Lessons

LESSON 1: What causes Mt. Everest to move in different ways?

LESSON 2: How are patterns in earthquakes similar or different in locations around the world?

LESSON 3: Why do earthquakes happen in specific patterns around the world?

LESSON 4: What are plates?

LESSON 5: What is below Earth’s plates?

LESSON 6: How are the plates moving?

LESSON 7: "How much have the plates moved near Mt. Everest?

LESSON 8: "How does plate movement explain movement at Mt. Everest and other places in the world?"

LESSON 9: "Why do volcanoes form in some places? "

LESSON 10: "How do the mantle and plates interact to explain earthquakes and landforms at locations on Earth’s surface? "

LESSON 11: "How could a fossil get to the top of Mt. Everest?"

LESSON 12: "How do fossils form?"

LESSON 13: "Why is there so little ancient seafloor left on the top of Mt. Everest?"

LESSON 14: "How did a marine fossil get to the top of Mt. Everest? "

LESSON 1: What causes Mt. Everest to move in different ways?

Sources of evidence for lesson 1:

Video 1: Scary Day on Mt. Everest
Video 2: News Report: What Happened on Mt. Everest
Reading: Earthquake in Nepal
Seismic Explorer

LESSON 2: How are patterns in earthquakes similar or different in locations around the world?

Sources of evidence for lesson 2:

Case studies of 8 different earthquake locations
Seismic explorer version 2
Video of eq patterns that Mr. Baur notices

LESSON 3: Why do earthquakes happen in specific patterns around the world?

Sources of evidence for lesson 3:

LESSON 4: What are plates?

Sources of evidence for lesson 4:

Reading: What's beneath the surface?
Reading: Deep mines
Photos of the surfaces of different plates
Data from cross sections from seismic explorer version 3.

LESSON 5: What is below Earth’s plates?

Sources of evidence for lesson 5:

Reading: What would we find if we could keep digging deeper than the deepest mine?

LESSON 6: How are the plates moving?

Sources of evidence for lesson 6:

LESSON 7: "How much have the plates moved near Mt. Everest?

Sources of evidence for lesson 7:

Video: Mr. Baur's demonstration of how the plates move back in time

LESSON 8: "How does plate movement explain movement at Mt. Everest and other places in the world?"

Sources of evidence for lesson 8:

Revised student models of Mt. Everest
Gotta have it checklist for revised model
Data: direction and speed of plate
Case studies of 8 different earthquake locations,

LESSON 9: "Why do volcanoes form in some places? "

Sources of evidence for lesson 9:

Data: Seismic explorer version 4.0 with volcano locations and plate directions
Reading: How Volcanoes form
Video: plate tectonics
Case studies of 8 different earthquake locations,

LESSON 10: "How do the mantle and plates interact to explain earthquakes and landforms at locations on Earth’s surface? "

Sources of evidence for lesson 10:

Gotta have it checklist
tri-venn summary table of 3 plate interactions

LESSON 11: "How could a fossil get to the top of Mt. Everest?"

Sources of evidence for lesson 11:

Reading: interview with geologist

LESSON 12: "How do fossils form?"

Sources of evidence for lesson 12:

Data: fossils from around the world
Reading: fossil formation
data: Utah through the Ages
data: Mt. Everest Rock Layers and Mt. Everest Time Series
video: fossil formation

LESSON 13: "Why is there so little ancient seafloor left on the top of Mt. Everest?"

Sources of evidence for lesson 13:

data: Landscape images
data: changes over time videos

LESSON 14: "How did a marine fossil get to the top of Mt. Everest? "

Sources of evidence for lesson 14:

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