Lesson Plan

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Sedimentary Rock

Objective

Students will learn about sedimentary rocks, how they are found, formed and examples of sedimentary rocks in our everyday life.

Topics Covered

  • What are clasts?

  • Fossils found in Sedimentary Rocks

  • What is Cementation?

  • What is Compaction?

  • In what part are sedimentary rocks in, at the rock cycle?

Vocabulary

  • sediments

  • lithification

  • cementation

  • compaction

  • weathering

  • organic rock

  • clastic rock

  • chemical rocks

  • rock cycle

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Lab Content

Rock Cycle Lab Activity with Starbursts!

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Materials

  • Handouts

  • Starburts

  • Colored pencils/crayons

  • Ziploc Bags

Directions

  1. Students will begin by filling out the table in the first page of the worksheet

*Follow Directions*

  1. Students will stack up 3 starburts (different colors)

  2. Students will put the stacked starburts in a ziploc bag and put it under hot water to represent a hot water basin

*Students will draw a picture of what happened

  1. The students will then take out the starburst and roll it in a ball and put it back in the ziploc for the teacher to collect in order to heat up the starburts in the baggie

  2. Students will also record this data by drawing and coloring a picture

  3. Students will answer the lab questions and turn in the worksheets