1. Tuesday 1/24/17
Notebook Entry: To the right is Cathedral Peak in Yosemite Park. It stands 3, 308 meters in elevation. Is mostly made of granite, one of the rocks you looked at yesterday. How might this towering piece of rock have gotten there?
John Muir, famous naturalist, who was first to climb Cathedral Peak in 1869.

2. Lesson 2: Classifying Rocks
What does it mean to classify?
How do geologist classify rocks?

3. My Planet Diary
Mount Moran in Wyoming

4. How do Geologists Classify Rocks?
Mineral Composition and Color
Texture
Origin

5. Classifying Rocks Rock Origins
Rocks are classified by the way they formed.

6. Vocabulary Cards – Due Thursday 1/26
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic