The Junior Science series aims to provide teachers with innovative lessons across a variety of topics studied in Science at the junior secondary level. This resource focuses on Tectonics and contains carefully graded worksheets suitable for students of all capabilities in Years 7-10.

The downloadable PDF resource incorporates a range of theoretical and practical scientific skills, as well as involving the development of literacy skills. Answers are provided to make marking of student work easy and time-efficient. 

Topics Include:

• Views of the earth
• Rock layers of the earth
• Spheres of the earth
• The rock cycle
• Mercalli scale
• Using a seismograph
• Simulating earthquake waves
• Locating the epicentre of an earthquake
• Making a volcano
• Volcanic explosions
• Folding and faulting
• Cyclones
• Fossilisation and fossil fuels
• Plate tectonics
• Continental drift
• Convection currents