Lesson Plan
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
Videos
Lab Content
Rock Cycle Lab Activity with Starbursts!
lab link Materials
Handouts
Starburts
Colored pencils/crayons
Ziploc Bags
Directions
Students will begin by filling out the table in the first page of the worksheet
*Follow Directions*
Students will stack up 3 starburts (different colors)
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
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
Students will also record this data by drawing and coloring a picture
Students will answer the lab questions and turn in the worksheets