mineral research

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Quarter 3 Grade sheets going home tonight for parents to sign!
Ask your child about their science grade!
This counts for a HW grade.

example model so far

example work

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gossipy grading- how your model will be graded

Group Model Gotta Have it List

GOTTA HAVE IT LIST: MODEL THE CHART!

• Natural Resources
• petroleum
• copper
• groundwater
• rain
• layers of the ground
• plants
• sediments
• pressure
• lake
• tectonic plates (subduction zone) (magma-water)
• mud/rocks
• buried
• wood
• consumption
• Time

TODAY IN CLASS: Popcorn Resources Demonstration & Discussion questions

HW: Word list & new Unit Cover Page Due Friday
*Empty your binder
of all Geological

Process Papers!

EARTH’S RESOURCES UNIT

Cover page: plain white computer paper, colored, three hole punched, three pictures, three vocabulary words, unit title in bold letters

·         Absorption

·         Aquifer

·         Atmosphere

·         Byproduct

·         Carbon dioxide

·         Fossil fuels

·         Petroleum

·         Gas

·         Energy

·         Water

·         Consumption

·         Human population

·         Mineral deposits

·         Mining

·         Oil

·         Greenhouse effect

·         Global warming

·         Ore

·         Minerals

·         Properties

·         Renewable resource

·         Nonrenewable resource

·         Population

·         Remote sensing

·         Geological time scale

·         Sand, silt, clay

·         Sediments

·         Groundwater

·         Fossils

·         Rock layers

1.     What is a NONRENEWABLE resource?

2.    You, your Mother, your Grandmother, and your Great Grandmother- How many generations are present?

3.    What happened to the total amount of the resource popcorn?

4.    How much was left for each successive generation?

5.    Was anything left for the fourth generation?

6.    Did any of the kids that were part of the demonstration think about those who might be after them, or were they only trying to get as much popcorn as they could?

7.    What other resources could this happen to in the real world?

8.    If a resource is RENEWABLE, does that mean it will continue to exist no matter what people do?

9.    What two factors would you say are most important in determining how fast natural resources are used? (Think in this demo- how many people use the resource and the amount each person yeses is important in thinking about how fast resources are used up!)

10.  You have 15 dollars to buy 15 pieces of popcorn. What if there were only 10 pieces of popcorn left, but you needed 15 to survive?  What would happen? 

Geological Processes TEST TOMORROW (click here for review answer key)

group model

Earthquake Skyscraper Construction

We will be done with our earthquake skyscrapers by FRIDAY.
Geological Process Review sheet due MONDAY
UNIT TEST TUES 2/12

Graded assignments: group dimension model, vocab, individual blueprint

Group Model on Big White Chart Paper

• measure everything!
• draw exactly what you see
• label everything!
• I should be able to rebuild your exact skyscraper using just this model
• overall H x W x L
• mass of tuned mass damper in grams
• all pieces
• cm or inches
• color
• number of each type of piece used
• hidden length- dashed lines ------

rock cycle model examples

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