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A day at the
Racetrack
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Image: Some rights reserved by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
A day at the
Racetrack
Why do you think rocks like this move?
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The moving rocks are found in a place in Death Valley National Park.
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The moving rocks are found in a place in Death Valley National Park.
Why is this area called Death Valley?
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They are found in a place called Racetrack Playa inside of Death Valley National Park.
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They are found in a place called Racetrack Playa inside of Death Valley National Park.Why is this area called Racetrack Playa?
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Why is this area called Racetrack Playa?
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Using Google Maps or Google Earth, locate Racetrack Playa
The ‘sailing stones’ have intrigued Geographers for a long time.
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Image: Some rights reserved by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Image: Some rights reserved by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
There has to be an explanation for this strange movement of rocks …
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Your mission is to solve the ‘mystery’ of the moving rocks.
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In a group of three or four, sort the cards (shown on the following slides) …
Your mission is to solve the ‘mystery’ of the moving rocks.
Source: rgs.org website on Fantastic Places – A Day at the Racetrack
Source: rgs.org website on Fantastic Places – A Day at the Racetrack
Source: rgs.org website on Fantastic Places – A Day at the Racetrack
Source: rgs.org website on Fantastic Places – A Day at the Racetrack
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You should sort the cards into three main types …
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You should sort the cards into three main types …• Background information on Death
Valley• Not useful in answering the question• Helps answer the question
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Each group should prepare an explanation on a poster to answer the main question, which will then be explained to the rest of the class.
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The class will give feedback on each explanation, and will vote for the most reasonable one.
To find out more, you can visit this site …
http://geology.com/articles/racetrack-playa-sliding-rocks.shtml
Context: This presentation is to accompany the Fantastic Places Scheme Of Learning as developed by the Royal Geographical Society.
This particular resource is also found on this website:http://year7geo.com/
It is partly comprised of other people’s images which I have credited.In the same spirit of sharing as those whose work I’ve borrowed, this presentation by James Penstone is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.