Here are some of the fascinating interactive explorations you and your students will encounter:

• Move and rotate a globe to observe the movement of continents over the past 200 million years.
• Study the history, development, and evidence for the theory of plate tectonics.
• Move and rotate the continents of Africa and South America to see how they fit together.
• Move the continents to study the changes in climate through time.
• Build the supercontinent of Pangaea.
• Study the movement of the continents through time and answer questions about specific events that occurred in different locations on the globe.
• Study the evidence of paleomagnetism by tracking the positions of the magnetic and rotational poles.
• Calculate water depth using echo travel time, then plot data on a graph to construct a profile of the ocean floor.
• Find out what causes seafloor spreading.
• Assemble the plate tectonics "puzzle."
• Experience the major interactions along plate boundaries and study the differences between convergent, divergent, and transform fault boundaries.
• Rotate the globe to view the oceanic ridge system and see oceanic lithosphere being created.
• Study continental rifts and explore current examples of the initial breakup of a continent.
• Examine how extensional forces in the Basin and Range region of the U.S. created fault block mountains.

Table of Contents (Intermediate)

• Introduction
  
  
• Continental Drift: An Idea Before Its Time
  • Fit of the Continents
  • Fossil Evidence
  • Evidence from Rocks
  • Climatic Evidence
  • The Great Debate
    
    
• Exploring Continental Drift
  • Applying the Evidence
  • A Closer Look
    
    
• Earth's Interior
  
  
• New Evidence: Mapping the Ocean Floor
  
  
• Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Revolution Unfolds
  
  
• Divergent Plate Boundaries
  
  
• Convergent Plate Boundaries
  
  
• Transform Fault Boundaries
  
  
• A Closer Look at Plate Boundaries
  
  
• Testing the Plate Tectonics Model
  • Evidence from Ocean Drilling
  • Earthquake Patterns
  • Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes
    
    
• What Drives Plate Motions?
  
  
• Pangaea: Before and After

Table of Contents (Advanced)

• Introduction
  
  
• Continental Drift: An Idea Before Its Time
  • Fit of the Continents
  • Fossil Evidence
  • Evidence from Rocks
  • Paleoclimatic Evidence
  • The Great Debate
    
    
• A Scientific Revolution Begins
  • Continental Drift and Paleomagnetism
  • Seafloor Spreading
    
    
• Plate Tectonics: The New Paradigm
  
  
• Divergent Plate Boundaries
  • Oceanic Ridges and Seafloor Spreading
  • Continental Rifts
    
    
• Convergent Plate Boundaries
  • Oceanic-Continental Convergence
  • Oceanic-Oceanic Convergence
  • Continental-Continental Convergence
    
    
• Transform Fault Boundaries
  
  
• Testing the Plate Tectonics Model
  • Evidence from Ocean Drilling
  • Earthquake Patterns
  • Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes
  • Magnetic Reversals and Seafloor Spreading
    
    
• What Drives Plate Motions?
  
  
• Pangaea: Before and After
  • Formation and Breakup of Pangaea
  • Plate Tectonics into the Future