Monday

• Increase understanding and retention of vocabulary words.
• Learn the vocabulary that corresponds with rocks and minerals.

Assignment:  Purple Words Quiz.  Green Word Wall Words.

• Discover four processes that shape Earth’s features.
• Discover how each type of rock changes into another type as it moves through the rock cycle.
• Compare two characteristics of rock that are used to help classify it.

• Use observation, inference, data collection skills.

Assignment:  Ride the Rock Cycle Lab Sheet and Cartoon. 

• Discover four processes that shape Earth’s features.
• Discover how each type of rock changes into another type as it moves through the rock cycle.
• Compare two characteristics of rock that are used to help classify it.

• Use observation, inference, data collection skills.

Assignment:  Cartoon Due.  Predicting the Rock Cycle PPT.

• Summarize the rock cycle.

• Analyze and predict the sequence of events in the rock cycle.

• Represent the natural world using models and identify their limitations.

Assignment:  Predicting the Rock Cycle PPT. 

• Complete appropriate forms for science fair.

Assignment:  Checklist, 1A, Research Plan Attachment, and 1B.  (Form 3?  Form 4?)