To identify the amounts of soil particles that make up the texture of soils, and how different minerals change the layer.
Materials & Resources
Jar, soil(from different locations), water, permanent marker, spade or some type of digging items
The specific area from the SOL’s the students will be learning about is how earthquakes happen, how their strength is determined and the locations of these types of disasters. This lesson plan may take more than one day.
Materials & Resources Computer Lab, Map showing Tectonic Plates, recent earthquakes information, plate movement directions, map, and table. Popsicle sticks, glue, string, and clay.
Weathering and Erosion Lab
Continental Drift Lab
Materials: Foam Disks for Ocean to use on the lab. Pre-cut out continents. Fill-in notes. Questions to turn in regarding the lab. Powerpoint. Textbooks for Crossword.
To Become familiar with the amount of water on the earth and a comparison of the amount of water that is a usable resource.
Materials & Resources
Apple(s) and a knife
To understand the processes by which rocks are formed define the 3 major groups of rocks.
The Rock Cycle is the process by which all rocks are formed and how basic Earth materials are recycled through time.
To illustrate the rock cycle and the 3 main types of rocks with crayons.
To demonstrate knowledge of the vocabulary associated with the formation of rocks.
Students should be able to:
Students should be able to:
Understand: The moon revolves around Earth creating the moon phases (and eclipses). From earth, we see only one side. I
Students should be able to identify and name the phases of the moon.
The student will investigate and understand how to identify minerals based on physical and chemical properties.
Key concepts include hardness, color, streak, luster, cleavage and fracture.
Materials & Resources
set of mineral samples – to include at least quartz, talc, feldspar, gypsum, fluorite, calcite
streak plate, steel nail, penny, glass plate, a fingernailJ