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Inside the Earth: crust, mantle and core

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  • 11 questions
  • 34 marks
  • about 35 minutes
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Question types: multiple choice, true or false, label the diagram, matching, ordering.

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Which layer of the Earth do people live on?

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About this resource

Journey down through the Earth's four main layers, learn what the lithosphere is, and find out how scientists know about layers nobody has ever seen.

15 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. The four layers of the Earth
  5. How do we know what is inside the Earth?
  6. What is the lithosphere?
  7. Worked example: describing a layer
  8. Hinge check
  9. Your turn with me: the outer core
  10. Task: the layer table
  11. Task: the lithosphere and the crust
  12. Self-check against a model
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