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Feb. 8, 2008

Geology Unit Study

This is a rough draft of what we are doing for science over the next four weeks. It's not a lot but we have a baby due in a month so we are taking it easy. In fact, science this whole school year has been pretty relaxed. We just read out loud, discuss, and do a project or experiment here and there.

Geology Unit Study Schedule (4 Weeks)

Bill & Dylan ~ Main Text: The Geology Book by Dr. John D. Morris, with Study Guide (www.nlpg.com/store/images/studyguides/GeologyBook.pdf)
Bill ~ Additional Reading: The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, by Simon Winchester

	Bill & Dylan	Jesse & Emily
Week 1
Monday	Introduction	~
Tuesday	Chapter 1 ~ Planet Earth	The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth, by Joanna Cole
Wednesday	Chapter 2 ~ The Ground We Stand Upon ~ Igneous Rocks sort and classify igneous rocks from our collection	~
Thursday	Chapter 2 ~ The Ground We Stand Upon ~ Sedimentary Rocks sort and classify sedimentary rocks from our collection	Dig It! How to Collect Rocks and Fossils (Reader's Digest)
Friday	Chapter 2 ~ The Ground We Stand Upon ~ Metamorphic Rocks sort and classify metamorphic rocks from our collection	~
Week 2
Monday	Chapter 3 ~ The Earth's Surface ~ Plains & Plateaus	~
Tuesday	Chapter 3 ~ The Earth's Surface ~ Mountains Create a "mountain" and an "earthquake"	Earthquakes, by Seymour Simon Create a "mountain" and an "earthquake"
Wednesday	Chapter 3 ~ The Earth's Surface ~ Erosional Features	~
Thursday	Chapter 4 ~ Geological Processes and Rates ~ Erosion	Erosion: Changing Earth's Surface, by Robin Michal Koontz
Friday	Chapter 4 ~ Geological Processes and Rates ~ Deposition	~
Week 3
Monday	Chapter 4 ~ Geological Processes and Rates ~ Sediments Become Sedimentary Rock	~
Tuesday	Chapter 4 ~ Geological Processes and Rates ~ Fossilization Create a "fossil"	Fossils Tell of Long Ago, by Aliki Create a "fossil"
Wednesday	Chapter 4 ~ Geological Processes and Rates ~ Volcanism, The Deformation of Rocks Create volcano replica	Volcanoes: Mountains That Blow Their Tops, by Nicholas Nirgiotis Create volcano replica
Thursday	Chapter 4 ~ Geological Processes and Rates ~ Were the Continents Once Connected?, Metamorphism of Rocks, Radioisotope Decay	~
Friday	Chapter 5 ~ Ways to Date the Entire Earth	~
Week 4
Monday	Chapter 6 ~ Great Geologic Events of the Past ~ Creation, The Fall	~
Tuesday	Chapter 6 ~ Great Geologic Events of the Past ~ The Flood	Planet Earth/Inside Out, by Gail Gibbons (for review)
Wednesday	Chapter 6 ~ Great Geologic Events of the Past ~ The Ice Age	~
Thursday	Chapter 7 ~ Questions People Ask	I Can Be A Geologist, by Paul P. Sipiera
Friday	Chapter 8 ~ The Future Earth	~

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