The Project:

Create a presentation exploring any topic we have covered or you would like to learn more about in our Rocks and Minerals Unit!

This is an open presentation project. That means you can choose how you present it. Some examples of project ideas are below.

The requirements for the project are: 

1. Your project plan and presentation format must be approved by me.  You must use some sort of visual to explain your topic

2. You must use at least two references included at the end of your writing

3. You must have at least one page (double spaced) of writing which explains what you have learned

4. If you are in pairs you must have two pages of writing and you must explain how you will share the work in your project plan. 

Some project ideas:

• Grow your own crystal out of salt, sugar, and explain how some different crystals form in a powerpoint or a video

• Make a Prezi or Emaze presentation on the crystals, precious metals, and minerals in a famous artifact like the mask of Tutankhamun

• Create a working volcano out of papier mache with a cutaway which shows how magma forms and cools as intrusive and extrusive rock

• Make a video, song, or interview about the rock cycle

• Create a bristol board explaining the use of minerals in common items around us like glass, diamond tools, metal, or microchips

• Make a model or video of plate shifting and explain how plate tectonics can create earthquakes, tsunamis, mountains, and other landforms

• Make a model or use a bristol board to that show the passing of the ages through the layering of different rocks

• Make a model of a cave to show how stalagmites and stalactites form from limestone

• Explore and explain in a detective comic strip how chemical or mechanical erosion can create amazing landforms or disastrous landslides

• Make your own fossils and explain how we can use them to find out about our past

• Perform a puppet show presentation about how fossil fuels are formed