We are learning about the surface of the Earth and today we observed how plates move on the magma layer under the plates. There are 7 main tectonic plates and several small ones. They move very slowly, and there are three ways in which they move.

1. away from each other- divergent boundary

2. towards each other – convergent boundary

3. slide side by side – transform boundary

We made these movements using corn flour with food colouring for the magma, and crackers for the plates. We described each movement as we moved the crackers.