Day 3: Coal & Plate Motion Map Activity
Lesson Plan - Coal & Plate Motion Map Activity
Developed by 2008-2009 TESSE Graduate Fellows from Penn State University (http://sites.psu.edu/drlauraguertin/)
Objectives
Students will:
- Review the prime environmental conditions for the formation of coal.
- Use paleomaps to examine plate motions from the Silurian to the Late Cretaceous and identify the main coal-forming period in Pennsylvania. (located in separate document)
- Use paleomaps to explain the distribution of coal in other regions of the United States.
Materials
- U.S. Coal reserves map (two examples provided)
- Color copies of 5 Scotese paleomaps (Silurian, Devonian, Early Carboniferous, Late Carboniferous, and Late Cretaceous)
- Western Interior Seaway map
- Late Cretaceous Climate map
- Photos of U.S. swamps and illustrations of PA swamps 300 Ma
- World coal map for assessment exercise
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