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    Science Lesson Plan - Rocks

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    This document provides a lesson plan for a 2nd grade class to learn about different types of rocks. The lesson has five parts: engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. In the engage section, students are presented with rocks and asked questions to assess their prior knowledge. In explore, students observe and describe rocks in pairs. In explain, characteristics of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks are defined. In elaborate, students match rocks to examples. Finally, in evaluate, students list what they learned and the best way to sort rocks.

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    This document provides a lesson plan for a 2nd grade class to learn about different types of rocks. The lesson has five parts: engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. In the engage section, students are presented with rocks and asked questions to assess their prior knowledge. In explore, students observe and describe rocks in pairs. In explain, characteristics of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks are defined. In elaborate, students match rocks to examples. Finally, in evaluate, students list what they learned and the best way to sort rocks.

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    This document provides a lesson plan for a 2nd grade class to learn about different types of rocks. The lesson has five parts: engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. In the engage section, students are presented with rocks and asked questions to assess their prior knowledge. In explore, students observe and describe rocks in pairs. In explain, characteristics of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks are defined. In elaborate, students match rocks to examples. Finally, in evaluate, students list what they learned and the best way to sort rocks.

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    Topic: Rocks

    Grade Level: 2nd

    Lesson 1: Three Rocks

    Objectives: Observe and define characteristics

    of rocks

    1. Students will be able to generate and use adjectives to describe the characteristics of rocks

    2. Students will be able to predict and investigate what happens when two rocks are rubbed together

    Engage

    The students will be gathered and presented a bag of rocks. The rocks are of different shapes, color, and
    other characteristics. The teacher will ask the questions to access their prior knowledge of rocks. Some
    of the questions include:

     Who can tell me what these objects are?


     Have you seen any of these rocks before? If so where have you seen them?
     Where can you find rocks?
     Are all of these items rocks?
     How are they alike/different?

    The students will share their experiences with rocks in the past and their observations of the rocks that
    they see in front of them.

    Explore

    Students will be grouped into pairs and each pair will be given their own bag of rocks. With a partner,
    the students will have five to ten minutes to observe the rocks in their bag.

    Students will record their observations in their science journals. Using these observations, the pair will
    try to list general characteristics of rocks. The students will try to define what a rock is.

    Explain
    The teacher will ask the class for the characteristics they observed for each type of rock. The teacher will
    write their answers on the board and have the class write down the class list. The teacher will also ask
    for the students' answers to the questions in the Explore section. The teacher will ask what the students
    learned from the story they heard this morning that supports their ideas.

    The teacher will then write the definitions on the board and have the students copy them

    down in their journals. The definitions are:

    1. Igneous Rocks: Hot rocks or melted rocks that are found in volcanoes and inside the

    Earth; rock formed by the solidification of molten magma

    2. Sedimentary Rocks: Cool, wet, or fossil rocks that are found in rivers, oceans and lakes; rock formed
    from consolidated clay sediments

    3. Metamorphic Rocks: Changed, squished or "rhinestone" rocks that are found inside the Earth; rock
    altered by pressure and heat

    Elaborate

    The teacher will give the students a worksheet with the name of a rock and some characteristics of the
    rock. The students, with their partners, will try to match the rocks in their bags to the rock on the
    worksheet. Once they match a rock to the worksheet, they will add one more characteristic to the
    worksheet that they think would make identifying the rock easier.

    NAME OF ROCK

    CHARACTERISTICS

    ANC CHA

    OBSIDIAN

    BLACK, GLASSY
    SCORIA

    HOLES, RED

    GRANITE

    BLACK AND WHITE

    PUMICE

    LIGHT

    SANDSTONE

    BROWN, SMALL PIECES

    CONGLOMERATE LARGE PIECES

    SHALE

    FLAT

    MUDSTONE WITH FOSSILS

    SHELLS, MUD

    COLORED

    CHERT

    HARD, REDDISH

    BROWN
    SERPENTINITE

    GREEN, SMOOTH

    SCHIST

    GRAY, SHINY,

    FLAT MINERALS

    MARBLE

    WHITE, GRAY

    Evaluate

    Using an exit ticket, the students will list one thing they learned about igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks
    and metamorphic rocks. Then the student will write what they think is the best way to sort rocks and
    why they think

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