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Minerals RMTS- Daniel Divito

Minerals Slide Deck

Rocks RMTS - Daniel Divito

Rocks Slide Deck

Early Societies and R+M TSRM - D Divito

Early Societies R+M

Mining RMTS - Daniel Divito

Mining and Impacts

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Unit Plan

Unit Plan

Part 1: Rocks VS Minerals. What is the difference?

Part 2: Minerals

Part 3: Rocks

  • The 3 Rock Types - Formation (Rock Cycle). Video.

  • How to tell the rock types apart locally

    • Activity - ID some rocks students have found as sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic.

  • Common local examples of each (Limestone, slate, granite, Diorite, Gneiss). What minerals are in each?

  • Stories rocks tell us (Indigenous Stories, Evidence of travel, Erosion, water, or heat in its history)

    • Activity: Sort rocks based on smooth vs rough, big mineral size vs small, and light vs dark. Each of these tells a story about the rocks history.

    • Assessment: Have students create a rock story in dramatic form, creative writing, or a comic. The story can be based on a rock they found, have, or supply the students with a box of rocks or pebbles. Have them ID the rock, then with the knowledge of the rock cycle, and evidence of its form, create a story of how it got there.

Part 4: Human Use and Impact

  • Mining and its impacts.

    • Activity: Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining (in Slides above)

    • Assessment: Costs and Benefits of Mining (In Slides above)

  • Canada's Natural Resources - What R+M do we produce?

  • Early Society Uses of Rocks/Minerals

    • Explore some of the ways early societies use Rocks and compare it to today.

    • Activity: Listen to some rock stories from indigenous nations across turtle island

    • Activity: Traditional Games you can play with your class. Have students make up a rock game

    • Activity: "Cave Painting" with sidewalk chalk (more details in slides above)

    • Activity: Guess the tool (In slides above)

    • STEM Activity: Make a stone tool with found objects in your schoolyard/greenspace (See slides)

    • Assessment: Venn Diagram on uses of rocks and minerals past and present

Grade 4 Lessons Rocks.pdf

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