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How to Use the
Rock & Minerals - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
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HERE to view sample pages from this book.
Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click
HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.
The
Rock & Minerals - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: • Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!
Here is the Table of Contents for the
Rock & Minerals - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:What Are Minerals?: Reading Information Text
Properties of Minerals: Reading Informational Text
Common Minerals: Reading Informational Text
Crystal Structure: Primary Source Analysis
Testing Mineral Hardness: Applying Concepts G
Useful Minerals: Main Idea Organizer G
What Are Rocks?: Main Idea G
Rock Poetry: Point of View
Three Types of Rocks: Reading Informational Text
Three Types of Rocks: Graphic Organizer GO2
Name that Rock!: Applying Concepts G
Let's Dig Deeper: Igneous Rocks: Compare & Contrast
Let's Dig Deeper: Sedimentary Rocks: Graphical Analysis
Let's Dig Deeper: Metamorphic Rocks: Reading Informational Text
Rock Cycle: Graphic Organizer G
Let's Explore a Cave: Reading Informational Text
Spelunker Journal: Writing
Stalactites & Stalagmites: Comparison of Primary Sources
Rock & Mineral Words: Vocabulary GO10
Valuable Rocks-Gems!: Reading Informational Text
Mining for Ore: Primary Source Analysis
Common Core Correlations
G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online download
HERE.
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)