3D Plate Tectonics Models

Below are some example of the 3D dynamic models that my students designed and built for an integrated project my colleagues and I designed for their Science, Language Arts, and STEM Foundations courses. The models were sent to other schools for teachers to use while teaching plate tectonics.

If you want to see how student work looked different during the fall of 2020 during virtual learning, click HERE.

In this video, a student's models shows how a chain of violent eruptions occurs as the North American plate passes over the Yellowstone hotspot:

In this video, a student's model of the Himalayas shows how mountain building occurs when two continental plates collide at a convergent boundary.