Get Ready to Rock and Roll...
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with the Rock Cycle!
Created By: Cara Fischer, Genelle Lange, Kim Schopen, Nicole Sauser, and Staci Fischer
Introduction
You are now beginning your journey through the life of a Rock here on earth. It's going to be dangerous and a little crazy, but if you stay focused and complete this adventure you just might be able to conquer the mission at the end!
Task
You will explore and absorb information through two adventures. At the end of each adventure you must complete a quiz successfully to finish your mission. First we are going to introduce you to exactly what three rocks are in the rock cycle. After your missions are finished be prepared to create a project showing what you have learned. Be sure to click on the Back button on the top left corner of your screen until you come back to this rock and roll adventure when you are finished researching the different rocks.
Process and Resources
Click and learn the information only under sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks.
Click here for Adventure #1
Click here for Quiz 1.
Click and learn how the rock cycle works, be sure to click on the back button when you are finished and NOT on the links at the bottom of the website.
Click here for Adventure #2
Click here for Quiz #2
Evaluation
Now that you have learned about the different kinds of rocks and about the rock cycle you should be prepared to do a project. Show what you have learned about the different kinds of rocks or the rock cycle by creating a project.You can display this by making a poster, video, model, song, poem, cartoon, illustrated story, etc. Your teacher will give you the due date for this assignment. This project will be worth 50 points and the distribution of points is below.
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Your
Project Should Include:
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Points
Possible
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All types
of rocks
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15
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Properties
of rocks
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15
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Rock Cycle
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15
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Creativity
and Organization
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5
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Total Points
Possible
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50
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Conclusion
Congratulations on finishing your rock n' roll adventures! Sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks are the different components of the rock cycle. Each type of rock possesses their own physical properties. At different times in a rock's life it becomes a sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock. The rock cycle is much more complex than what you read about, so feel free to rock and roll with more websites during your own time.
More Resources
http://duke.usask.ca/~reeves/prog/geoe118/geoe118.011.html
These two have clickable maps!
http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/rock_cycle/rockcycle.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/rocks/rockcycle.shtml