Lesson+Plans+Week+2

= Overarching Questions: =
 * How does sand become sand OR Where does sand come from?
 * How do we use rocks and rock materials in our neighborhoods?
 * Questions to help you get here?
 * How have people used rocks throughout history?

Week 1 Question

 * Describe and draw what you see in your rock?

Week 2 Question

 * What are the different ways we sort rocks?

Week 3 Question Foss

 * How are these earth materials connected (related) to each other?
 * You might need to ask students, what does it mean to be related to someone?

Week 3 Question Insights

 * To Be Decided

= Read Aloud: = Rocks In His Head by James Stevenson (owned by Stephanie Allen)

= Extension of Sorting that Happens at the End of Week 2 = Give students their descriptors written on Index cards and then have them sort them into big categories. For example, they could put colors together, they could put texture together, but we want them to get to these big ideas together.

= Museum Exhibit: = Each partner pair/group should come up with a museum exhibit. They get a big piece of paper to create their exhibit. They must write about why they sorted their rocks the way they do.

We should photograph their exhibit and then display it.

You each own your own museum and you're curators. What will your museum be called? Kids brainstorm 3 names, ask other groups which they would most want to visit.
 * Day 1**


 * Day 2**

Here is a letter for the curators with their instructions for Day 2. Make a sign for your museum with the name. Pencil, then marker. Put up the spelling of museum and have them ask each other to get the other words spelled correctly. While they are doing that, take pictures of the curators together. Give each group 3 or 4 pieces of colored paper (one per kid). Each is one room of the museum: Red Room, Blue Room, etc. You don't have to put all the rocks in your exhibit, but sort the rocks into 3 different rooms.

What are the names of the rooms? Sort the rocks. Make it beautiful. Think about how it looks. Take photos. Name each room. Give them half index cards to write the name of the room in their neatest handwriting, so they remember what the rooms are called. Keep the exhibits in containers for the next day. Each person chooses one room to work on. Write a description of the room. Help each other. Kids do lay out of big paper -- how should it look? Glue it down. Include the photos of the 3 of them: Meet the Curators.

__Culminating Event__ Have students walk among the four classrooms in order to share their work

= Rock Hunt = Go outside and have students collect rocks for a rock collection

= Integration of Rock Investigations Unit = Two teachers will go deeper into the Insights Curriculum (Steph & Annie) Two teachers will go deeper into the Foss Curriculum (Serena & Diana)

= Ideas for More Ways to Sort and Investigate =
 * Weight (can we get a scale)
 * Are there ways to investigate some of the wonderings students have?

= Rocks Throughout History Images = Use See, Think, Wonder Strategy with images of Rocks used throughout history http://pzweb.harvard.edu/vt/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03c_Core_routines/SeeThinkWonder/SeeThinkWonder_Routine.html

We need to figure out a way for students to understand that these rocks are so old.

= Sharing Our Rock Exhibit = We must talk about this at BNC on January 30, 2012