Objective Students will investigate weathered rock particles and

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin Welcome to Class!! 01 -21 -10

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin Bellwork!! • What is your definition of a rock? • Name a reason why these things are rocks – Glass – A broken clay pot – A clump of dirt

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin Announcements!! • Pop Tabs • Notebook Check on Friday • Quiz on Friday

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin Question of the Day!! • Title a new page in your notebook “How is sand different? ”

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin Lets Make our page! Show notebook page

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin What could be some ways we could classify sand?

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin What could be some ways we could classify sand? • • Shape Sorting Grain size Composition

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin So what are we going to do? • Each group will have a microscope. Look at each sample of sand under the LOW power objective. • For each sample draw what you see and fill out your observations on your notebook page • After writing down your observations, try to guess where the sand originated…(not all sand comes from the beach!)

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin About the scopes… • Not everyone will have a scope, you must share! • Be sure that you do not touch the lens with anything! • What should you do if you have any questions?

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin Scope review

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin Lets get started!

Objective: Students will investigate weathered rock particles and infer their origin Lets make some guesses • Sample 1 • Sample 2 • Sample 3 • Sample 4 -