Unit of Inquiry #5
Big Ideas 5: Earth materials change as they move through the rock cycle and can be used as natural resources. The motions of Earth and Moon cause observable patterns that affect living and non-living systems.
Essential Questions:
Provocation: How do natural disasters affect us and the world?
- How can we classify rocks?
- How do igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks move through the rock cycle?
- How can we use different processes to make Starburst candy go through the rock cycle?
- How do continental and oceanic tectonic plates move in convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries?
- How do geographical disasters like earthquakes happen and what is their impact?
- How do geographical disasters like landslides and avalanches affect us?
- How do geographical disasters like volcanos affect us?
- What if the earth stops spinning?