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Rocks and Minerals: Exploring Earth's Changes

A differentiated instruction project focused on rocks and minerals, where students have the opportunity to choose projects that complement their learning style. Activities include researching famous rock phenomena, creating presentations, building volcanoes, and more.

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Rocks and Minerals: Exploring Earth's Changes

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  1. Rocks and Minerals Big Ideas: Geologists study rock cycles to explain how the Earth changes. Rocks are valuable resources. The fossils found in some rocks tell us many important things about life on Earth long ago. Heat and pressure can alter the shapes, sizes and properties of rock.

  2. Differentiated Instruction Project choices- Students have the opportunity to choose a project that complements their intelligence style. Options include: • Design a layered sandstone picture. • Research famous rock phenomenons such as Mt. Rushmore, Stonehenge, Grand Canyon and Devil’s Tower. Write a short report on your findings or share the information by decorating a poster board. 3. Create a Power Point presentation to share your knowledge of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock. • These projects serve as extensions to the students’ learning.

  3. Core Proposition #1: Teachers are Committed to Students and Their Learning Second graders are fascinated with rocks. I chose rocks and minerals for my unit plan because my students are inquisitive and they love hands-on activities.

  4. During the course of this unit my students will . . . • Write friendly letters and design a postcard • Build volcanoes and make fossils • Excavate dinosaur bones • Experiment with different soils • Discover layers in food items such as a five layer cookie bar • Organize a rock collection • Participate in rock investigations and experiments • Design conservation posters • Investigate how wind and water change the surface of the Earth • Make rock discovery booklets

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