Quiz for Continental Drift Video
Initial Publication Date: May 14, 2020
Summary
This is a pdf of a quiz composed of multiple choice and true/false questions.
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Context
Audience
This material is appropriate for an introductory course such as Physical Geology, Earth Science or Environmental Geology.
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
The quiz and related video are best used early in a lesson about plate tectonics or the nature of geological science.
How the activity is situated in the course
Students respond to quiz questions presented in our classroom management system after viewing the related video and before attending class. (That is, while we provide the questions here as a pdf document, that is not how we present them to students in our course.)
Goals
Content/concepts goals for this activity
The quiz and related video address two learning objectives:
- Students will be able to describe observations that Alfred Wegener used to develop the continental drift hypothesis;
- Students will be able to explain why continental drift was not widely accepted.
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity
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Other skills goals for this activity
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Description and Teaching Materials
After watching the associated video, students complete the quiz to ensure that they have a working knowledge of some basic content related to continental drift. This provides the instructor with more time in the subsequent class to incorporate active learning exercises that include application of higher order thinking skills.
- (answers included at the bottom)
- Continental Drift video
CDrift_Quiz -- private instructor-only file
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We include the video and quiz in a pre-class exercise offered in our course management system.
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Assessment
Compare student responses to answer key (included - see bottom of PDF).