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**PURPOSE OF PROJECT**
With your group, you will be creating a kid-friendly, exciting, interactive website about a given topic on plate tectonics. media type="custom" key="11293536"

**YOUR TASK**
Essentially, each group will be given their own webspace (a wikispace). Watch the video below if you don't know about wikis.

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With your group, you will be researching about a given topic on plate tectonics.

Topics are found at this link: http://mrsshipp.wikispaces.com/Topics+for+Interactive+Plate+Tectonics+Website

Each person in the group will be responsible for a section dealing with the topic. It will be each person's job in the group to report the information in a kid-friendly, exciting way. This means you will have to research the topic and transform the information into kid-friendly terms. You will not be able to just cut and paste information from websites since most information is written for adults and not for kids.

**HOW TO WRITE KID-FRIENDLY TEXT **
In [|plate tectonics], a **divergent boundary** or **divergent plate boundary** (also known as a **constructive boundary** or an **extensional boundary**) is a linear feature that exists between two [|tectonic plates] that are moving away from each other. Divergent boundaries within [|continents] initially produce [|rifts] which produce [|rift valleys]. Most active divergent plate boundaries occur between [|oceanic plates] and exist as [|mid-oceanic ridges]. Divergent boundaries also form [|volcanic islands] which occur when the plates move apart to produce gaps which molten lava rises to fill. //Cut and Paste from:// [|//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_bounda//ry] || Divergent. Big word, huh? Let's break down the word to see if this is more helpful. The prefix "di-" is actually short for the prefix "dis-" which means "apart." "Verge" means to "turn." So, if you put these together, you get to turn apart and that is exactly what plates at divergent boundaries do - they turn apart or move apart from each other.
 * **__Bad example of kid friendly text__. This sounds like a textbook that no one wants to read: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__Good example of kid friendly text__. This sounds more like something someone would want to read:**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Divergent boundary: When two tectonic plates are moving apart from each other. ||

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To put in kid-friendly words, use the following tips: > Tips from: //Tips for Writing Kid-Friendly Articles// []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When writing a kid-friendly article use a fun, playful tone, this will make the article more engaging and interesting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Keep it simple; use familiar, age appropriate vocabulary.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Check out some web pages that are specifically for kids, they will be a great example of how to write in a kid-friendly tone. (The inurl:k12 search command will help you find school pages geared towards kids that can be used as a reference.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Write a catchy first paragraph, kids get bored easily and if they are not engaged in the first paragraph they will not continue reading.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Avoid lengthy sentences and wordiness.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Check out the link below for more examples of kid-friendly websites: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Then, after changing the information into kid-friendly terms, it will be your job to add the "bells and whistles" to your website. Your job is to make your website as interactive as possible.

CITING SOURCES
Make sure you make a record of all websites you use for research, photos, videos, etc. For now, you just should cut and paste the URL's. But eventually you will need to correctly cite all sources. To do this, use the website: []

If you do not cite sources, you will have some major points deducted from your grade.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**HOW TO MAKE YOUR WEBSITE COOL**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Suggestions on how to make your website interactive:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">create quiz questions or a poll (try [|www.micropoll.com])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">embed youtube videos
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">insert a game
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">add diagrams/pictures/cartoons - even cooler if they are animated (move)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">insert a voki, goanimate ,xtranormal, blabberize, - talking avatar websites
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://perkupprojects.wikispaces.com/Avatars
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Other ideas:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://perkupprojects.wikispaces.com/Images
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://perkupprojects.wikispaces.com/Comics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://perkupprojects.wikispaces.com/Logos
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://perkupprojects.wikispaces.com/Video

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<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">KID FRIENDLY WRITING
<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">From Ava Gray (2nd Period) <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">An EXCELLENT example of kid-friendly writing: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**What is the Richter scale?**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">No, the richter scale is not the kind of scale you weigh yourself. This scale was invented by a guy named Charles F. Richter hence the name the Richter scale.The Richter scale is the measurement of how strong the earthquake is. For instance a 2.0 is not very big and we can feel it but it's not recorded, and a 10.0 is huge, I mean like epic and one has never been recorded!The earthquakes that actually create damage have to be above a 4.0 on the richter scale.If you remember we had an earthquake over the summer on the east coast and it was a 5.9 on the richter scale.Thats all that's shaking.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TIPS FOR GETTING STARTED:
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1) Once you have signed in, press on your group's project (Find on the left side where it says Wiki Home, then Projects, and then under projects is a link to your group's project page) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2) Create a new page - press the link on the left side that says new page. Title this new page with whatever question you are doing (ex. Question 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3) Cut and paste your question (from the Project Topics link on the left side) into your page so you know what you are trying to investigate <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4) If there are page numbers from the science textbook to use for your question, use this reference first - This will save you a lot of time <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5) Open up two tabs - one wikispace tab to work/write in and one to research with (use link on left hand side that says "Websites for Research")

=<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**PUT YOUR QUESTIONS INTO TOPIC CATEGORIES** =

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Thanks Leila! Good example of putting into categories.**

<span style="color: #64356f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**What is a Convergent Boundary?**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**"Conver"** is the short meaning for pushing together. When the plates collide together it can make volcanoes. When they collied the plate boundaries will crumple and fold between them. When a denser or older plate gets pushed by another that plate will sink under the other plate and make mountains. When it sinks under the other plates that is called subduction. The prefix //sub// means **"under"**, and the latin word //ducere// means **"to lead"**. When the plate gets down closer to the core, the plate will start to heat up and then mealt to make magma. When that magma goes down to the core it starts to make something like a chamber. that chamber is created above the sinking boundary plate. The chambers are //less// compact toghther so it makes it way up to the top slowly and creats a volcanoe eruption. When the plates collied its not a very smooth and soft ride. When it happens sometimes tsunami forms and crushes the land. Like the tsunami in Asia, it killed more than 200,000 people in 11 countries across the Indian Ocean region in December 2004.

<span style="color: #632a75; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Collision zones and mountains:**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What do you think happens when to plates collied? Well i'll tell you. When both plates collied one just doesn't go under the other one. They can both go up to make mountains! This happens when more oceanic crust or continental crust is more older they are the same. If you have two tables same type and push them together with the same amount of force then they should both go up. But if you take two different tables then push them together then one of the tables should go under the other one. An example of convergent plates are the himalayan mountains. Both plates had the same amount of density so they both went up.