INTRODUCTION:
Essential Question:
Change is in everything. How does geology demonstrate the changes that Earth goes through in its history?
You have just been told that you will be visiting a planet much like Earth in another solar system. After going into suspended animation, you wake up approximately 500 years later and find that you have not aged a day.
To refresh your memory of your mission, you put the DVD back into the player and listen carefully to the instructions on what you will be doing while visiting this planet.
You have one week to accomplish this task because you will lose communication with Earth in 7 days time. Here are your instructions…
To refresh your memory of your mission, you put the DVD back into the player and listen carefully to the instructions on what you will be doing while visiting this planet.
You have one week to accomplish this task because you will lose communication with Earth in 7 days time. Here are your instructions…
Task 1
3- Visit the following web address.
http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/index.html
Follow the cycle of rocks located in this site. You can click on the different activities and watch how different rocks are made. Follow the instructions under the Rock Cycle diagram.
After you have explored this web page, do the following three tasks:
A- Illustrate the rock cycle
B- Write a one page synopsis on the adventures a rock will experience as it goes through the cycle.
C- Do the quiz at the end then bring your score with you at the end of this quest.
http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/index.html
Follow the cycle of rocks located in this site. You can click on the different activities and watch how different rocks are made. Follow the instructions under the Rock Cycle diagram.
After you have explored this web page, do the following three tasks:
A- Illustrate the rock cycle
B- Write a one page synopsis on the adventures a rock will experience as it goes through the cycle.
C- Do the quiz at the end then bring your score with you at the end of this quest.
Task 2
Go to this website and listen to the "Rock You" song. Listen to the vocabulary of the rock cycle and see if you can imagine the different types of rocks being manufactured around you.
http://pinterest.com/pin/203576845626345747/
Go to this website and listen to the "Rock You" song. Listen to the vocabulary of the rock cycle and see if you can imagine the different types of rocks being manufactured around you.
http://pinterest.com/pin/203576845626345747/
Task 3
Follow this link and quiz to discover more about rocks...
https://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/identifyrock/
When you have finished exploring here, please go to this additional site:
studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/services/search-results?query=Rocks%20and%20Minerals
Task 4
1- You are to collect three samples of different types of rocks. Place them in a bag and bring them back to Earth then hand them in with the rest of the assignment.
A- Igneous
B- Sedimentary
C- Metamorphic.
A- Igneous
B- Sedimentary
C- Metamorphic.
Task 5 Click on over to this web site for a fun game identifying different types of rocks into their parent bedrock. Have great fun!
https://kidsgeo.com/geology-games/identify-rocks-game/
https://kidsgeo.com/geology-games/identify-rocks-game/
Task 6
5- Now you will get back into your spaceship and head back to Earth. Bring the results of this quiz with you when you land in the classroom in the morning.
http://www.quia.com/quiz/272209.html
http://www.quia.com/quiz/272209.html