Before teaching plate tectonics, volcanoes, or earthquakes, I helped my students identify with convergent, divergent and lateral plate movement by turning it into a love song/poem.
Before reading and performing, students did a word study, created their own onomatopoeia, similes and talked about figurative language. Then, it was on to the poem/rap/song!
My girls memorized the "female" part, boys memorized the "male" part and both performed the third. They then competed against each other with t