The Plate Tectonics Student Learning Guide includes self-directed readings, easy-to-follow illustrated explanations, guiding questions, inquiry-based activities, a lab investigation, key vocabulary review and assessment review questions, along with a post-test. It covers the following standards-aligned concepts: Earth?s Interior; Heat Transfer & Convection Currents; Continental Drift; Sea-Floor Spreading; Theory of Plate Tectonics; Plate Tectonic Boundaries; Changes in Earth?s Surface; Volcanoes & Plate Boundaries; and Earthquakes. Aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and other state standards.