Students will model the process of the rock cycle through a series of activities involving starburst. This lab report will guide the students through each step of the process and ask them questions along the way.

Students will need to be able to draw a visualization of the rock cycle as well as explain the process in a short response format.

Content covered:

Weathering, erosion and deposition

Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks

The rock cycle

This resources can be used as a group activity or for individual instruction.

This resource can also be made into a booklet to paste into student interactive notebooks!

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The lab goes step by step to provide demonstrations of plate boundary activity with both oceanic and continental crust. It includes short answer and long response. The conclusion includes a CER (claim, evidence, reasoning) activity to get students critically thinking.

A quick, one page review activity is also included to use before or after the lab is completed.

Content covered:

Oceanic vs Continental Crust

Convergent boundaries

Divergent boundaries

Transform boundaries

Subduction

Lithosphere

Asthenosphere

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Review vocabulary, key concepts and contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift.

The link for Google Forms is available in the resource. An answer key in included in the resource and in Google Forms.

Task cards can be printed 1 per page or 4 per page. The answer sheet can be printed 1 per page or 2 per page to save paper. I typically print 2 per page so they’re perfect for gluing into interactive notebooks.

*Please note that the text is editable in each task card but the titles and clip art are not editable.

Content covered:
Earth’s Layers
Continental Crust vs Oceanic Crust
Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift
Sea Floor Spreading
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Trenches
Rifts
Alfred Wegener
Pangea

Panthalassa
Marine sediments (lithogenous, biogenous)

Earth’s Magnetic Field and Magnetic Anomalies

Carbon Dating
Divergent Boundaries

Convergent Boundaries

Transform Boundaries

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Each question is in short or long response format so students explain the topic and their understanding.

There are 3 ways to use these editable warm ups:

1. Use them with slides as students fill out the answers on their own personal answer sheet.

2. Use the answer sheets with the questions on them without the slides. I personally have my students hole punch them each week to add into a pronged folder or binder to use as a study tool. You can even print them at 90% so students can glue them into their interactive science notebooks!

3. Use them for online learning or digitally with the Google Slides version. This is also perfect for digital interactive student notebooks.

A PowerPoint version is included for editing and a PDF version is included for easy printing.

*The questions are editable but the fonts and clip art are not due to copyright.*

Included in this resource:
3 weeks of warm ups (15 total).
3 editable templates to fit the needs of you and your students
PowerPoint Slides with the questions to project for your students
Answer Key

Blank Slides and Answer Sheets to add your own questions.

Content covered:

Earth’s Layers

Continental Crust vs Oceanic Crust

Plate Tectonics

Continental Drift

Sea Floor Spreading

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Trenches

Rifts

Alfred Wegener

Pangea

Panthalassa

Marine sediments (lithogenous, biogenous)

Earth’s Magnetic Field and Magnetic Anomalies

Carbon Dating

Divergent Boundaries

Convergent Boundaries

Transform Boundaries

*Each resource is in PDF and PowerPoint format for easy editing.

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections and review concepts.

The Google Slides activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and printable are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
Earth’s Layers
Plate Boundaries (convergent, divergent, transform)
Plate collisions (oceanic-oceanic, continental-continental and oceanic-continental)
Evidence for plate tectonics and continental drift (mid-ocean ridge, magnetic anomalies and sea-floor spreading)
The Ring of Fire
Oceanic vs Continental Crust

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The PowerPoint is broken up into 4 different parts:
Engage: This is a question that is used to get students thinking and engaged before the lesson begins. They answer the question in their guided notes.
Checkpoints: These are questions throughout the lesson that assess what students are learning as they go through. The student’s answer these questions in their guided notes. Answer key is included in the PowerPoint & PDF.
↵ Bringing it Back: This final question wraps up the lesson by tying student’s new knowledge with the engagement piece.
✐Summarize! Students can summarize their learning by writing, drawing or both.

The PowerPoint is editable. The titles, images and clip art are not editable.

Guided Notes:
The guided notes follow along with the lesson. This allows the students to go through the lesson with the class as the teacher goes through the slides or they can fill it out independently if they are using the Google Slides digitally. All the text aside from the title and cover page are editable.

The Google Slides version of the guided notes include helpful tools for students to use and moveable digital pieces in the form of highlighter strokes so students can highlight key words and information.

Includes two cover pages for interactive notebook booklet sand digital interactive notebooks. One in color and one in black and white.

The Google Slides version of the guided notes are not editable.

Assessment:
The assessment contains 25 questions with a mix of vocabulary matching, short answer and multiple choice questions. An answer key is included. Everything is editable except for the title and any included clip art lip art.

A self-grading Google Forms version is included. The link is in the resource. The google Forms assessment has the same questions but they are all multiple choice.

Content covered:

Big Bang Theory and formation of Earth
Earth’s Layers
Continental Crust vs Oceanic Crust
Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift
Sea Floor Spreading
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Trenches
Rifts
Alfred Wegener
Pangea

Panthalassa
Marine sediments (lithogenous, biogenous)

Earth’s Magnetic Field and Magnetic Anomalies

Carbon Dating
Divergent Boundaries

Convergent Boundaries

Transform Boundaries

*Each resource is in PDF and PowerPoint format for easy editing.

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and print version are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
Structure of the Continental Shelf and Abyssal Plain: Continental Slope, Continental Rise, Shelf Break
Active margins and passive margins
Hydrothermal vents
Structure of the Ocean Floor: Abyssal plain, Volcanic Island, Guyot, Seamount, Oceanic Ridge, Abyssal Hill, Trench
Vocabulary: Active Margin, Abyssal Plain, Hydrothermal Vent, Passive Margin, Seamount, Continental Shelf, Shelf Break, Abyssal Hills, Continental Margin, Guyot

Black Smokers and White Smokers

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Rift Valley

Mariana Trench

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It is editable to meet the needs of your students and there is a colorful Google Slides version of both the PowerPoint lesson and guided notes to use digitally!

Included in this resource:

• Editable Quick PowerPoint Lesson
• Editable guided notes with 2 versions for differentiation
• Cover for interactive science notebooks
• Google Slides version of PowerPoint lesson and guided notes for online learners

Content covered:

Continental margins

Shelf break, continental slope, continental rise, abyssal plain

Active margins and passive margins

Seamounts and guyots

Mid-ocean ridge, trenches, central rift valley

Hydrothermal vent, black smokers, white smokers

***Text is editable but clip art and text with special fonts are not editable due to copyright of those resources.***

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and print versions are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
Earth’s changing landforms (weathering, erosion, deposition)

Mechanical Weathering vs Chemical Weathering
Vocabulary such as deltas, groundwater, dunes, abrasion, glacial drift, floodplain, oxidation)

How rivers impact erosion and deposition

Erosion prevention methods

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It is editable to meet the needs of your students and there is a colorful Google Slides version of both the PowerPoint lesson and guided notes to use digitally!

Included in this resource:

• Editable Quick PowerPoint Lesson
• Editable guided notes with 2 versions for differentiation
• Cover for interactive science notebooks
• Google Slides version of PowerPoint lesson and guided notes for online learners

Content covered:

What are rocks?

Weathering, erosion and deposition

Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks

The rock cycle

***Text is editable but clip art and text with special fonts are not editable due to copyright of those resources.***

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