Teaching Tip on 'Paleomap Project'

I used this website in an in-class activity on Continent-Continent Collision. I pointed students towards this website and two other sites with paleogeography-type information on them, and had the students map out the occurences of cont-cont collisions in space and time based on what they could figure out from the websites. I asked them (a) to make a list of which mountain ranges of the world formed by continent-continent collision, (b) to mark and label the location of each of these cont-cont collision mt ranges on a world map, and (c) to mark each mountain-building event on a geological time scale. I think it worked pretty well. Some collision events were hard to see in the animations and sometimes it was hard for the students to figure out where the colliding fragments had ended up in the modern continents. They definitely came awa with the sense that cont-cont collision was an ongoing and widespread phenomenon in Earth history.