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3/18 & 3/19

3/17/2013

Learning Targets
1. Identify and classify rocks based on mineral composition, texture, and origin.

Daily Agenda
GQ
Rock Identification Lab
Ride the Rock Cycle
Study Guides for Test

Test Wednesday Red!
Test Thursday White!

Study Guides due before the test for extra credit!!!

GQ....... If a black rock is said to have crystallized from magma, cooling slowly within the earth, what type of rock would it be?
            1. Sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic?
            2. fine grained or course grained?
            3.   intrusive or extrusive?
            4. mafic or felsic?

3/13 & 3/14

3/13/2013

Learning Targets
1. Identify and classify minerals based on specific characteristics.
2. Classify rocks based on their origins.

Daily Agenda
GQ
Mineral Identification Lab
Ride the Rock Cycle

Examples of cleavage

GQ......
1. Infer how plate tectonics would drive the rock cycle.
2. List the 3 types of rocks and where they

3/13 wacky wednesday

3/12/2013

Learning Targets
1. Identify and classify minerals based on specific characteristics.

Daily Agenda
GQ
What is a Mineral?
Identifying Minerals

minerals

Moh's Scale of Hardness

GQ Blog Back or write in notebook........
1. What is a mineral?
2. List 3 characteristics that might define a mineral.

3/11 & 3/12

3/10/2013

Learning Targets
1. Grade a product that will illustrate and explain the connection between surface phenomena, plate tectonics and the earth's internal structure by investigating a geographic location of significance.
2. Identify how minerals make up the products we use in our everyday life.

Daily Agenda
Tectonic Presentations
Seed Planting
GeoHunt Minerals

Diamonds are older than dinosaurs. The youngest natural diamond is over 900 million years old.

Explain this quote....."If it can't be grown, it has to be mined!"

3/5 & 3/6

3/4/2013

Learning Targets
1. Design a product that will illustrate and explain the connection between surface phenomena, plate tectonics and the earth's internal structure by investigating a geographic location of significance.

Daily Agenda
GQ
Review HW
Structure of the Earth Projects

Yellowstone Hotspot & Magma Chamber

GQ Blog Back ........
1. Describe the relationship between convection currents and seafloor spreading and give and example of where this occurs on earth.
2. What happens when 2 continental plates collide. List 3 geologic features.

3/18 & 3/19

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