Tectonic sandwiches

In this activity, students make sandwiches to investigate tectonic plate boundaries and how they move during an earthquake.

There are also non-food related alternatives for exploring tectonic plates.

By the end of this activity, students should be able to:

• begin to use content vocabulary terms like ‘tectonic plates’

• demonstrate different ways in which the tectonic plates move during an earthquake.

Download the Word file for:

• introduction/background notes

• what you need

• what to do.