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Magnetic Wiggles Lesson Plan
File Name symons.lesson.serc.doc
Data Type lesson plan
Computer Program Microsoft Word X
File Size 56.00 KB - 1 file
Expert Level High School (Grade 9-12)
Contributor Christina Massell Symons
Source Christina Symons, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Resource Matrix Seafloor Spreading
Description
Inquiry-based lesson designed for implementation at the ERESE Summer Workshop in 2004. Using bathymetric maps over the East Pacific Rise west of Mexico, real shipboard magnetic data and modeled magnetic anomalies, students will learn that a unique pattern of magnetic stripes can be used to identify the age and rate of plates as well as the location of mid-ocean ridge spreading centers.
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