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Science Grade 8ES Minerals and Rocks

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Science Grade 8ES Minerals and Rocks

3-5 weeks

The Earth's crust is composed of different tyoes of rocks and minerals that have disticnt characteristics.

What are minerals?

What are rocks?

How are minerals and rocks classified?

How are rocks recycled?

(1)	MST1	Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.
(1)	MST2	Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.
(1)	MST3	Students will understand the concepts of and become proficient with the skills of mathematics, communicate and reason mathematically, and become problem solvers by using appropriate tools and strategies, through the integrated study of number sense and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and statistics and probability.
(1)	MST4	Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
(1)	MST5	Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.
(1)	MST6	Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.
(1)	MST7	Students will apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science, and technology to address real-life problems and make informed decisions.

Identifying characteristics of minerals.

Using characteristics to identify different types of rocks.

Rocks are continually being changed and recycled.

Banding

Cementation

Chemical composition

Chemical properties

Classification

Clastic

Cleavage

Color

Composition

Contact metamorphism

Crystal

Crystalline structure

Evaporates

Extrusion

Extrusive igneous rock

Features

Felsic

Foliated

Fossil fuels

Fossils

Fracture

Hardness

Igneous rocks

Intrusion

Intrusive igneous rock

Luster

Mafic

Magma

Metallic

Metamorphic rocks

Mineral

Nonmetallic

Organic

Particle

Physical properties

Pyroclastic material

Regional metamorphism

Rock cycle

Sedimentary rock

Streak

Structure

Texture

Volcano

Batholith

Bioclastic

Carbonates

Cinder cones

Dike

Iron oxides

Laccolith

Lave

Lava plateau

Moh’s scale of Hardness

Monominerallic

Nonrenewable

Ore

Pluton

Plutonic rocks

Recrystallization

Rock-forming minerals

Shield cone

Silicates

Sill

Strata-beds

Sulfides

Tetrahedron

Volcanic neck

Volcanic rock

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