M&Ms and the Lithosphere

Today we reviewed about the lithosphere. We started by looking at a diagram of the inside of the Earth. The diagram showed the crust, upper mantle, mantle, outer core, and the core of the Earth.

To demonstrate this concept with more depth, we bit into a peanut M&M and drew the result. There was a candy coating (the crust), chocolate (the mantle), and the peanut (the core) to the peanut. I observed that the coating of the M&M was very thin and the chocolate and the peanut are much larger and make up the majority of the M&M, as it is with the Earth. I think I would use this in my classroom to help the students understand the makeup of the lithosphere.