Modeling Tectonics

Cracker can be used to model tectonics because the dots are like the faults. They could be put in frosting to model how the crust sits above the mantel and can move.
Materials:
Graham crackers
Frosting
Wax Paper

1. Convergent: cracker over cracker
2. Divergent: down and apart
3. transvergent: slipped

Alfred Wagner-Continental Drift (not strong enough proof), now we know about  convection currents
Three proofs-rock types (fossils), glacial scars, contents fit together
US Navy discovered Mid-Atlantic ridge and polar magnetism

Earth's Layers-Pizza Model

Land floats on top on the ocean, like the toppings float on the pizza. The cheese is like the oceanic crust and the toppings are like the continental crust. While  the sauce is the asthenosphere because the layers above it float on it. The crust of the pizza is like the mantel of the earth. 

The Life of Zane

Zane was created in a volcano in Zimbabwe as a part of a magma flow with many of his friends.  Zane enjoyed his life as a the stud of the rock world, as a metamorphic rock. He was streaked and beautiful with black and silver lines running across him. By the time Zane had reached his sassy stage, his parents had enough of his antics. In an earthquake, Zane's parents rolled away leaving him exposed to the elements. After years of weather and erosion, Zane was no longer a stud. He became a sedimentary rock, loosing his beautiful streaks and becoming a sandy color. Zane was officially a sandstone, plain and boring. Zane continued to be eroded and crushed by his fellow rocks. Until one day, the Zimbabwean volcano erupted and  Zane was a again a studly metamorphic rock. 

Simulations

Heath Bar (Igneous Rock):
Small crystals-extrusive
mixed inside
light minerals meaning more potassium, sodium, and calcium
Also could use fudge
Rice Crispy (Detritial Sedimentary)
bits and pieces: cereal
glue: marshmallows
Butterfinger (Metamorphic Rock-Schist)
clean, distinct layers that can be separated
andes mints or crayons