Rock Cycle
CyberSearch Activity
M464/H783
• Subject Area: General Science/Grade 7 Restless Earth Unit
• Topic/Concepts: The use of
technology to learn about rock formation, weathering, and transportation and
how it is cyclic in nature.
• Text: Science Plus
Technology and Society, Holt, Rinehart and
• Chapter Title/Pages Unit six Chapter 17 pages 381-401
& s117pp
• Audience: Challenging,
struggling
What makes up the rock cycle?
A
CyberSearch for 7th Grade (Science)
Designed
by
David
C. Gross
. dacgross@iun.edu
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of artist’s palate in
Introduction _______________________________________
We have been studying about the different classes of rocks in class. We need your help in making new catchy diagrams of the rock cycle for other schools that do not have computers. These diagrams can use cool pictures of rocks and the different processes that change them.
To begin our study, let’s use the internet to uncover some important information about the rocks, weathering, deposition, and actual geology behind the never-ending rock cycle.
Task ________________________________________________
The
goal of this project is to verify the information that you have learned on
rocks and the rock cycle in class. The
information you collect will be used to create your own diagram of the rock
cycle for the other schools. The poster
of the rock cycle will be made on the computer and then printed out for you.
The
final product will be a completed web quest and rock cycle diagram done on the
computer. Be creative use pictures and
drawings.
directions__________________________________________
You
need to read the question and then answer only the question that is being asked
for each number. Use the links directly
below each question to answer it. Your
answers are different steps of the rock cycle. One answer may be used more than once in the
rock cycle. So go and explore the web using only these hyperlinks and the links
within their pages to answer the questions.
Let the Search Begin!
Answer
the following questions using the links directly below the question. Write down your answers that you come up within
the space provided. The answers will be
used to create your very own rock cycle diagram.
2. How do the
rocks from fire form?
3. What are deformed rocks called and how does
this happen?
4. What breaks down all of the rock classes?
5. What happens to the rocks after they are
weathered?
6. How are sediments cemented
together and what do they form?
This is a link
to a rock cycle diagram; use it as an idea for your poster.
Through this CyberSearch, you have begun your own
electronic research into the exploration of the geologic rock cycle. While many of your questions about the cycle were
probably answered, the nature of the forces may leave students asking more
questions. In the spaces below, list two
more questions you have about the rock cycle.
List any other links that you may have found useful during this
CyberSearch.
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