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CCA SC-04-2.3.1

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Earth Materials

1.      I can identify earth materials.

2.      I can explore properties of earth materials.

3.      I can describe earth materials by their properties.

4.      I can classify earth materials by the way that they are used.

5.      I can make decisions about how earth materials can be used based on their properties.

·         Have students brainstorm a list of what they think are earth materials.  List all ideas with the title of Earth Materials? 

·        Working in groups, students draw pictures of three earth materials and one that is not.  Play “One of These Things is not Like the Other” game.

·        Students make a Frayer Model for “Earth Materials.”

·        Each student observes one earth material and describes one earth material then shares their description with someone with the same material and revises description.  Make list of property words.

·        Student volunteers act out a property (from words on a card) and anyone with an earth material with that property stand up.

·        Working in groups, students sort earth materials in some way and record their groups.

·        Students write “rhyme for a rock,” a “sonnet for sand,” a “poem for soil,” or an “ode to water” using property words.

·        Pull a card that has a use for earth materials written on it.  Have students tell what earth material would be best for that purpose and why.

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1.      Name three earth materials. (exit slip)

2.      Name some qualities or characteristics that different earth materials have. (exit slip)

3.      Identify one earth material and describe three properties it has. (exit slip)

4.      Classify the following earth materials by how they are used:   granite, marble, limestone, sand, soil, clay, water, oil, natural gas. OR  Use pictures or actual objects to classify and explain why you classified the way you did.

5.      Match the earth materials with their uses.  Choose one of your matches.  Give two reasons why the earth material would be good to use for that purpose.

Time Frame: 

Big Idea

Learning Target

Activities

Formative Assessments

CCA SC-04-2.3.1

Earth Materials

1.      I can identify earth materials.

2.      I can explore properties of earth materials.

3.      I can describe earth materials by their properties.

4.      I can classify earth materials by the way that they are used.

5.      I can make decisions about how earth materials can be used based on their properties.

·         Have students brainstorm a list of what they think are earth materials.  List all ideas with the title of Earth Materials? 

·        Working in groups, students draw pictures of three earth materials and one that is not.  Play “One of These Things is not Like the Other” game.

·        Students make a Frayer Model for “Earth Materials.”

·        Each student observes one earth material and describes one earth material then shares their description with someone with the same material and revises description.  Make list of property words.

·        Student volunteers act out a property (from words on a card) and anyone with an earth material with that property stand up.

·        Working in groups, students sort earth materials in some way and record their groups.

·        Students write “rhyme for a rock,” a “sonnet for sand,” a “poem for soil,” or an “ode to water” using property words.

·        Pull a card that has a use for earth materials written on it.  Have students tell what earth material would be best for that purpose and why.

·       

1.      Name three earth materials. (exit slip)

2.      Name some qualities or characteristics that different earth materials have. (exit slip)

3.      Identify one earth material and describe three properties it has. (exit slip)

4.      Classify the following earth materials by how they are used:   granite, marble, limestone, sand, soil, clay, water, oil, natural gas. OR  Use pictures or actual objects to classify and explain why you classified the way you did.

5.      Match the earth materials with their uses.  Choose one of your matches.  Give two reasons why the earth material would be good to use for that purpose.