Question for Science project? Please serious answers too!!!?

Question

I have to build a model on Pangaea and me and my partners made shapes of continents and we glued magnet on the back of the continents. We're going to control them by putting the continents on a whole blue covered board and put some magnets behind the board so we can move the pangaea continents. Please, my science teacher said that the best and coolest project will be on display! Please give me some more ideas of how I could make the project more cool and more creative. It doesn't have to be complex but please, make it good enough so that I might get ours project chosen. My lazy partners hate complex stuffs!!! For example, you could give me some ideas of something moving that I could put a the board or anything! Thanks!

And I can't put anything else on it except the main point because my other classmates are doing sea floor spreading and subduction and stuffs.

Answer 1

You could make models of the plate boundaries, such as subduction zones that form where continents collide with oceans. Use different colors of modeling clay for dense oceanic crust and lighter continental crust. Stack the layers while refering to diagrams online, then cut the layers you create so that a cross section is visible showing the ocean crust sliding under the continent (this will not move of course, it is a model).
You could also make a model of a mid-ocean ridge zone by using a cardboard shoe box. A Slit is cut in the top and two strips of paper (representing lava) are threaded through. As you pull the strips across the top of the box it demonstrates the formation of new sea floor. Lava exits along the ridge and is progressively older the farther you get from the ridge.
You may be able to find a diagram online.