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Rocks in Your Head A Curriculum unit designed to increase

Rocks in Your Head A Curriculum unit designed to increase literacy skills through computer research and lab activities Stephen Ryan PVHS Summer 2006. Rocks in Your Head: Designed for 9 th grade Earth Science students School:

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Rocks in Your Head A Curriculum unit designed to increase

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  1. Rocks in Your Head A Curriculum unit designed to increase literacy skills through computer research and lab activities Stephen Ryan PVHS Summer 2006

  2. Rocks in Your Head: • Designed for 9th grade Earth Science students • School: • Pioneer Valley High School, Santa Maria Ca. • 3-class block schedule • Computer lab • Student Learning: • Gate • Special Ed. • 504’s accommodations • English language learners. • Demographics: • Hispanic 74% • White 17% • Asian 6% • Other 3%

  3. In RET I, I tried to utilize single or heterogeneous phase reactions in aqueous media at elevated • temperatures and pressure in order to crystallize inorganic and organic hybrid crystals. • I did this by attempting to synthesize inorganic- Organic hybrid materials consisting of a network using carboxylic acids as the connections between metal ions/metal ion clusters.

  4. The purpose of this project was to translate my research experience from RET I into a curriculum resource where I would use and share. • Translating My Research: • Teaching science through problem solving • Understanding the variables of problems • Using technology to link prior knowledge • Learning through reading and writing • Using literacy skills to solving problems

  5. Rocks in Your Head • Research Projects: • What are Rocks? • What are Crystals? • Amongst the Rocks (Igneous, Metamorphic, & Sedimentary) • How can rocks be Transformed? • What about your Rock? (Final Project) • Lab Activities: • Mineral Identification • Crystal Formation • Rock Classification • Requirements: • Select a type of rock to further research • Identify the minerals that make up your rock • Identify your rocks crystal structure • Identify the variables for crystal growth • Explain how rocks can be transformed • List the physical properties of rocks • Write a scientific letter for each project

  6. Rocks in Your Head • Research Projects & Lab Activities: • What are Rocks? • Mineral Identification Lab • What are Crystals? • Crystal Formation Lab • Amongst the Rocks (Igneous, Metamorphic, & Sedimentary) • Rock Classification lab • How can rocks be Transformed? • What about your Rock? (Final Project) • California Content Standards: • Dynamic Earth Process • 3. C) Students know how to explain the properties of rocks • based on the physical and chemical conditions in which • they formed. • National Content Standards: • Unifying concepts and Processes • Systems, order and organization • Evidence, models, and explanation • Change, consistency and measurement • 5. Form and function

  7. Assessments: • All assessments are based on rubrics • Scientific Letters (5x75 pts) • Lab packets (3x75 pts) • Literacy Skills: • Reading: • Instructions • Information • Peer editing • Writing: • Scientific letters • Comprehension: • Scientific letters • Lab activities

  8. Acknowledgements: The Materials Research Laboratory (MRL), University Of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Educational Outreach Program RET I: PI: Anthony Cheetham Mentor: Crystal Merrill Funding: Unilever & NSF Summer: 2005 RET II: PI: Dr. Michenfelder Mentor: Kim Gato Funding :National Science Foundation Summer: 2006

  9. References: • Rock Hounds • www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/create/index.html • Geoscience • www.amonline.net.au/geoscience/index.htm • Rocks Rock! • www.rocks-rock.com • Geodetective • www.nps.gov/brca/geodet/ • Windows to the Universe • www.windows.ucar.edu

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