1. Soil, Rocks and Minerals
Sessions 40-43

2. Warm Up Day 1: Session 40 Soil
1. How does the formation of soil relate to tectonic action? In other words, how is new rock being brought to the Earth’s surface?
2. List 4 ingredients of soil:
3. What causes soil to form?
4. T/F The composition of soil is the same no matter where you are on Earth.
5. What does this statement mean?: “When we learn about the origin of rocks, we also learn about the history of the Earth.”

3. Warm Up Answers Q1: Tectonic Plate Demonstration
Q5: Show picture: Red Rocks and Dinosaur Ridge CO earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6113

4. Textbooks: Unit A Chapter 3--3.1
Question #1 is a review question. The answer can be found on p Then, turn to p. 75

5. Warm Up Day 2: Rocks and Minerals Session 41
Finish Rock Cycle from Worksheet. Text p. 79A
Go on to Vocab fill in the blank when Rock Cycle is done.

6. Warm Up Day 2:
Watch Discovery Ed Video Geologists’ Notebook: What Exactly are Minerals? Sections 2 & 5
Copy the following statements in your notebook and after watching the video, fill in the blanks:
Minerals form as _____________ cools inside the crust, or as _________hardens on the surface.
When these liquids ________ to a solid state, they form crystals.
When elements and compounds that are _____________ in water leave a solution, ________________ of minerals occurs.

7. Rock Sorting Sedimentary Metamorphic Igneous
1. Create a Chart in your Notebook like the one below
2. You and your partner sort your rocks into the appropriate category.
3. Fill in the chart by the characteristics of each type of rock and how they were formed. Use p. 79A in your Textbook.
4. At the bottom of your chart: Think and answer: How does the structure of the rocks reflect how they were formed?
Sedimentary Metamorphic Igneous

8. Classwork: Worksheet
Chapter Use your answer sheet to complete Section 4.2 in your Textbook Worksheet.
When you are done, begin your ChoiceBoard activities.

9. Homework
Choose your ChoiceBoard activities.
Do 1.

10. Warm Up Day 3: Session 42
On the blank half sheet, draw and label the Rock Cycle. Include the three types of rock, the two different stages of the rocks, and the changes that occur between each type. (9 total)

12. Mods

13. Check Your Answers:

14. Work on Choice Board Activities
Resources:
Textbook
usgs.gov (US Geological Survey)
discoveryeducation.com
geology.com
pbs learns
trading card creator

15. Wrap Up: Give me 3
List 2 things you learned and 1 thing that you don’t understand or have a question about.

16. Warm Up Day 4: Human Impact Session 43
View the video loop of the satellite pictures of the state of Rondonia in Brazil from Answer the following questions: p
1. Given the stems pedo=foot, and sphere=circular layer, where would you infer the Earth’s pedosphere is located?
2. What are the ways we humans use the soil?
3. In what ways can a human population impact the pedosphere?
4. How was technology used to monitor the soil for impact?
5. How can technology be used to help prevent erosion?

17. This pattern follows one of the most common deforestation trajectories in the Amazon:
Legal and illegal roads penetrate a remote part of the forest, and small farmers migrate to the area. They claim land along the road and clear some of it for crops. Within a few years, heavy rains and erosion deplete the soil, and crop yields fall. Farmers then convert the degraded land to cattle pasture, and clear more forest for crops. Eventually the small land holders, having cleared much of their land, sell it or abandon it to large cattle holders, who consolidate the plots into large areas of pasture.

18. All major tropical forests—including those in the Americas, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia—are disappearing, mostly to make way for human food production, including livestock and crops.
Although tropical deforestation meets some human needs, it also has profound, sometimes devastating, consequences, including social conflict and human rights abuses, extinction of plants and animals, and climate change—challenges that affect the whole world.

19. Textbook Notes
Spend 10 Minutes filling in your textbook notes from the key.
Timer:

20. Work on Choice Board Activities
Resources:
Textbook
usgs.gov (US Geological Survey)
discoveryeducation.com
geology.com
pbs learns
trading card creator

21. Wrap Up:
Why are rocks, minerals and soil and how they are made something we need to know about?

22. Day 5?
Brainpop or StudyJam on Soil
Answer questions at end