Discovering Plate Boundaries has been selected for inclusion in the Reviewed Collection of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)! I am excited about this!

If you have used DPB I hope you will participate in the ongoing DLESE review process. Click the button below to connect to the DLESE review site! It won't take much time, and it will help promote the dissemination of high quality teaching materials. Thanks!

An article about Discovering Plate Boundaries was published in January 2005 in the Journal of Geoscience Education. Click to download the article.

Order a DPB Kit

Note: I will be at sea from mid-September to late November 2007. During that time, I will not be able to build or ship DPB kits.

Although I make all the materials and maps for Discovering Plate Boundaries available for free download from this site, it is more convenient for many teachers to order a kit containing all the unique materials needed to do the exercise with your class. When I do the exercise, I use 24" by 36" versions of the maps. Most teachers do not have easy access to a color widebed plotter that can make these maps from the downloadable file. The files can be taken to a local graphics company with the appropriate plotter, but the cost would likely be hundreds of dollars for the set of 4 maps. I make the kit available for $80. This is the cost of production for me. The kit includes the 4 large maps printed on paper (ready to be laminated for many years of use!), and master copies of the material I copy and handout to the students.

Download an order form for the Kit (Microsoft Word file)

Download an order form for the Kit (PDF file requires Adobe Acrobat)