Facts about the water cycle

Read the following link:

water cycle

What did you learn about the water cycle?   What is it?  What is it also called?  What happens during this process?  Why is water important?  Tell me 5 important facts about water.

Water Cycle Video

Watch the following video ....
Did this help you to understand the water cycle a little bit better? Any questions you have?
water cycle video

The Water Cycle

The following link shows the water cycle. Play the game and tell me what you learned. Did anything surprise you?

Water Cycle Game

Water For Life

Today, we watched a number of videos describing Jay Z's work in his project Water for Life. What did you learn when watching those videos? How do you feel about this project? What did you think about the video?
The following link provides a small recap of what we watched.  Check it out, read through and catch anything you may have missed or misunderstood.

Water For Life

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LEGO Shuttle launched into space

How could a LEGO shuttle possibly make it into space?  Check out the following link.

LEGO shuttle

What did you learn?  How did this happen?  What did you find interesting?  Surprising?
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This field rocks

Tucked in a shallow valley in northeastern Pennsylvania is a mysterious geologic feature: 16 acres of sandstone boulders. Science Friday took a trip to Hickory Run State Park's "boulder field" and spoke with Megan Taylor, environmental education specialist, about why the rocks collected there. Could you find any place close by that you could find this many rocks in one place?  What do you think about this area how did it form?

Field of Rocks

More Rock Cycle Work

What are the three rock types?  How do you we get from one rock type to the next? Play this rock cycle game to learn more about the rock cycle.


Rock Cycle

Rock Cycle

How does the rock cycle work?  What does it take for rocks to change form?  Connect to the following link and animate to find out.  Give me your thoughts.


Rock Cycle Animation

What do you think?

Did the rock labs we completed in class help you in understanding the different types of rocks, their characteristics and how to identify them?  What did you think of these different labs?  Did you like doing them or not?  How would you have preferred to learn about the different rock types (yes, you do have to learn about them!)

Rocks & Minerals Test

Let's see how much you know about rocks and minerals.  Go to the following link, complete the matching game and let me know how you did!


Rocks & Minerals

Rocks & Minerals Memory

Let's test your memory!

Check out the following link...


Memory

Metamorphic Rocks

Read the following link.
Tell me about Metamorphic rocks.  Where do they come from, what types are there, what are some examples and where do we find them?  Anything else you learned?

Report your findings!


Metamorphic Rocks

Sedimentary Rocks

Read the following link.
Tell me about Sedimentary rocks.  Where do they come from, what types are there, what are some examples and where do we find them?  Anything else you learned?

Report your findings!


Sedimentary Rocks

Igneous Rocks

Read the following link.
Tell me about Igneous rocks.  Where do they come from, what does igneous mean, what types are there, what are some examples and where do we find them?

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Igneous Rocks

Devastating Disaster

The tornadoes that ripped through Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio on Friday hit very close to home.  What were you doing as these storms raged through?   What were your thoughts?

Check out the following 2 links and learn a bit more about what happened Friday afternoon as towns were torn apart.  List any facts that you have learned about the tornadoes as well after reading.

Henryville, Indiana

Tornado

Where else did we see tornadoes touch down?

local tornado damage

Sedimentary Rocks

How do sedimentary rocks form?  How much of the earth is made of sedimentary rock?  How do these rocks give us an insight into Earth's history?  List some names of some sedimentary rocks.


Sedimentary Rocks

What is rock?

How are rocks different from minerals?  Click on the link below and tell me what the three categories  of rocks are and how are they formed.  How long have rocks been around?  Are the rock on the moon like the rocks on the earth?


Rocks