Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Modeling Mantle Convection Currents Lab

Guiding Question:  How might convection in Earth's mantle affect tectonic plates?  OR How does hot liquid affect an object at the surface of colder water? 

What is your prediction-Hypothesis?  Be sure to include your reasons behind the prediction. 

Skills Focus:  Making models, observing

Write a blog post using the questions 1 and 4 for the Data Analysis, and 2, 3, and 5 as part of the Conclusion.  Remember, when writing a conclusion, you should always go back to the Guiding Question and answer it.  In Further Inquiry:  think about errors, how the model represents convection currents, etc...  Also, look at the Designing Experiments Section on the lab sheet.  What further inquiries do you have or new experiments could you create? 

1 comment:

  1. do we need to do these labs? Just asking maybe you did that lab when I wasn't there.

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