What You Will Learn
Strategies
You will be using many reading and writing strategies to complete this lesson. The key strategies that you will focus on are:
- Identifying and using text features
- Determining important information
- Categorizing basic facts and ideas
Goals
Here are the big ideas you will learn about in this lesson:
- The continents are in slow but constant motion, riding on top of pieces of Earth's crust called tectonic plates
- The scientific community often refuses to accept new scientific theories that challenge existing ones
- Scientists often use new evidence to build on other scientists’ work and strengthen theories
Vocabulary
Read these words and their definitions. When you see them, you may click on them to read the definition again.