I am going to do 2nd grade Utah State Core Content Standard 3: Students will develop an understanding of their environment, objective 3: Investigate the properties and uses of rocks.
Problem: I will explain to the students that the other day, I was driving through Logan Canyon and saw many rocks that had fallen on the road.
Ideas:
1. I want to know why they are on the road, how they got there.
2. What kinds of rocks are on the road in Logan Canyon.
3. Could I find all kinds of rocks in the canyon.
4. I am building a new house, I want to make it out of rocks, which would be the best type(s) of rock(s) to use.
5. Could I do anything we these rocks besides study them. (e.g. Rock climbing, mountain biking)
Possible Resources:
* http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/us_national_forest/ut/cli_was.html - Link on rock climbing in Wasatch-Cache National Forest
* http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/create/index.html - How rocks are formed
* http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html - The rock cycle
* http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/types.html - Types of rocks
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion - Erosion of rocks
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good ideas...a couple things...wikpedia may not be the best choice and you need the links to be from different sites....you have two from learner.org...maybe you can have something from the us forest service...they should have some educational outreach materials
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