Big Ideas:
What causes change? Why should you care?
How do forces affect motion?
How do forces affect motion?
vocabulary: crust, mineral, magma, sediment, sedimentary igneous, rock cycle, pressure, metamorphic, fossil, weathering, deposit, erosion, lava, plate tectonics
Learning Targets:
I Can...
- Label and describe the layers of the Earth.
- Use a variety of maps and models to analyze and describe the geologic events occurring as a result of plate tectonics.
- Describe how weathering and erosion alter the surface of the earth.
- Explain that rocks are made up of one or more minerals.
- Identify minerals by their physical and chemical properties (luster, fracture, color, streak, hardness, cleavage, etc)
- Explain the properties of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock and the processes by which they are created.
I Can...
- Label and describe the layers of the Earth.
- Use a variety of maps and models to analyze and describe the geologic events occurring as a result of plate tectonics.
- Describe how weathering and erosion alter the surface of the earth.
- Explain that rocks are made up of one or more minerals.
- Identify minerals by their physical and chemical properties (luster, fracture, color, streak, hardness, cleavage, etc)
- Explain the properties of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock and the processes by which they are created.