1. Higher order questions
Lesson Topic(s): Science
2nd Grade
Week of: 5/13-17
Objectives: Students will make observations and understand how rocks are made and change.
TEKS: 2.1A ,B, D, 2.1.3, 1.4,1.5, 1.1a,1.1b2.1,2c, 2.1.2e, 7.A, 7.B, 7C
ELPS: 3.B.3, 1.F, 4.C.3, 1.D ,1.G,4.G,5.B5.G
Essential Question(s): How do rocks affect our environment and our lives?
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Lesson Plan
Read Everybody Needs a Rock
Finish lap book Rocks and minerals
Read The Big Rock
Finish lap book
Read Let’s Go Rock Collecting
Watch Brain Pop, Jr. video
Watch rock videos on discovery learning
Watch Magic School Bus “ Rocks and Rolls”
Pet rocks due
Little Eagle Relays
Vocabulary
Rocks
Minerals
Properties
luster
Rock and minierals
Collection
Tools
Picks
geologist
minerals
Higher order questions
How are rocks and minerals related?
How are all rocks related?
What would make rock collecting a good hobby?
How can rocks change from one type of rock into another type of rock?
Assessment Strategy
Write down properties of minerals.
Write the most important rock ft you heard in the book.
Brain pop video movie and quiz
Write 3 things you learned about rocks.