On Wednesday, students were assigned a rock cycle story. We wrote an outline in class about the rock cycle. Students were to take the outline and turn it into a rough draft with a minimum of 3 paragraphs and a maximum of 5 paragraphs. Today in class, we discussed and worked more on our rough draft. On Friday, students are to bring their completed rough draft to Language Arts. They will review their rough draft in LA. The final copy is due on October 4 to their LA teacher. This collaborative assignment is allowing students to apply what they learn in LA about writing into the science classroom. They will receive a grade in LA and Science for this project. Below is a required word list; these words must be included in the story.
Required words for rock cycle story: If there is a word that you cannot use in your story, write the definition after your three paragraphs.
Rock cycle, igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, erosion, weathering, heat, pressure, melting, cooling, solidification, uplift, lava, volcanic activity OR volcano, magma, sediment, compaction, cementation, intrusive OR extrusive.
Outline for rock cycle story:
1. Magma
a. Cools into intrusive igneous rock: granite
b. Volcanic activity turns into lava: extrusive igneous rock – basalt, pumice, obsidian
2. Pumice, fine-grained
a. Weathering and erosion (movement) produces sediment
b. Deposition, when sediment settles out and stops moving
c. Compaction – squishing sediment
d. Cementation – gluing together
e. Turns into sedimentary rock.
3. Sandstone rock
a. Through heat and pressure can turn into metamorphic rock. Rock is moving deep into the earth.
4. Melt into magma due to intense heat deep inside the earth.
