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4/5 Combined Science Unit: Rocks and Minerals and Conservation of Energy
Download this combined unit. Teaching a split grade is tough especially for science. Use this bundled unit that combines both my Rocks and Minerals Unit with my Conservation of Energy Unit. Also included is an outline that explains how to teach these two units together. These units contain the best of both worlds two whole units that include interactive notebook activities, and a project based research activity that leads to student inquiry. There are also experiments, writing tasks, reading passages, and a final summative activity: a game board culminating task.
Each of the activities in this unit meet the following learning goals.
Rocks and Minerals
-Understand the difference between Rocks and Minerals
-Exploring Rocks and Minerals in our everyday life
-Describe the properties that are used to identify minerals , (colour, lustre, streak, transparency, hardness)
-Describe how igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks are formed in the Rock Cycle
-Describe the characteristics of the three classes of rocks
-Investigate types of materials that are made of Rocks and Minerals.
-Choose a product made using Rocks or Minerals to explore for an inquiry project.
-Explore the Environmental Costs to using Rocks and Minerals
Conservation of Energy
– What is Energy?
– How is Energy transformed and stored?
– Can Energy be created, destroyed or lost?
– Renewable and Non Renewable Energy Sources
– Sources of Energy: How do we generate electricity
– Identifies the impact that some sources of energy has on the environment
– How do people use Energy
– Why should we conserve Energy
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This resource meets the most up-to-date curriculum requirements!
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