2nd Grade GLAD Unit Timeline: Rocks and Minerals
Approx. 2
of # min.
months at about 1 hr/day,
Activity
3 days /wk
Location
WEEK #1
Day 1
15 C.C.D.: geologist
Carpet
10 Song: Grubbly Grebbles (highlight vocab.)
Carpet
15 Inquiry Chart: What do you know about rock, minerals, and
fossils?
Carpet
Day 2
5
Review: Grubby Grebbles
Carpet
10 Pass out Folders and have students write their name on
packets
Desk
15 Chant: I’m a Geologist (highlight vocab. - students,
too!)
Desk
15 C.C.D: final meaning (FM)-geologist, new word (NW)metamorphic Desk
Day 3
15 Big Book: I Just Thought you Would Like to Know
(overview)
Carpet
20 Learning Log: Text/You (1 fact about each- rocks, soil,
fossils)
Desk
15 Notebook: Vocabulary Preview (pg.77)
Desk
15 C.C.D.: FM – metamorphic NW – magma
Desk
WEEK #2
Day 4
20 Pictorial: Layers of the Earth
Carpet
10 C.C.D.: FM – magma NW – composite
Desk
15 Science Book: pgs. 173-177 CLOZE read
Desk
10 Notebook: pg 80
Desk
Day 5
10 C.C.D: FM – composite
Desk
10
Review Pictorial (word cards)
Carpet
15 Big Book: Rocks
Carpet
15 EXPERIMENT #1 Rock or Mineral? Cookies!!
Desk
10 Chant: Is This a Rock? Yes Ma’am
(highlight
picture cards) Desk
vocab.-
Day 6
5
Review: Is This a Rock? Yes Ma’am
Desk
15 Pictorial: Rock Cycle
Carpet
5
Song: Rock Cycle Song
Carpet
20 Learning Log: Text/You ( 3 facts about the rock cycle)
Desks
20 EXPERIMENT #2 Demonstrate the Rock Cycle using food!
Desks
WEEK #3
Day 7
5
Review: Rock Cycle Song
Carpet
15 EXPERIMENT #1: Make a Sedimentary Rock
Carpet
20 Science Book: Fossils 205 – 207
Desks
10 Notebook pg. 94
10 Song: Fossils
Day 8
10 C.C.D.: FM – composite NW: Paleontologist
Desks
20 Science Book: 208 – 213
Desks
10 Notebook pg. 95
10 Science Book: 214 – 219
Desks
10 Notebook: pg. 97
Day 9
10 C.C.D.: FM – paleontologist
Desks
NW – properties
Desks
Desks
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15
Big Book: Minerals
Carpet
10 Poem: Minerals Here, Minerals There
Carpet
15 Learning Log: Text/You (Write facts about the properties
of minerals)
Desk
WEEK #4
Day 10
40 EXPERIMENT #2: matching properties of mineral to Mohs
scale
Desks
Day 11
10 C.C.D: FM – sedimentary NW - molecule
Desks
20 Narrative Input: Si the Molecule
Carpet
20 Story Map
Carpet
10 C.C.D: - FM - molecule
Day 12
10 Explain expert groups and task expectations
Desks
20 SPS: rocks
30 (1) Expert Groups #1/ Tasks: Story Map
Desks
Desks
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WEEK #5
Day 13
30 (1) Expert Groups #2 / Tasks: Pictorial (Earth)
Desks
15 Science Book: Weathering pg. 178-181 (ear to ear)
Desks
10 Notebook: pg.81
Day 14
30 (1) Expert Groups#3 / Tasks: Here, There Poem
Desks
30 Lecture Notes: Weathering / Erosion
Desks
Day 15
Desks
30
30
(1) Expert Groups#4 / Tasks: Pictorial (Rock Cycle)
Desks
Finish Lecture Notes: Weathering / Erosion
Desks
WEEK #6
Day 16
1 hr.
Process Grid
Desks
Day 17
40 EXPERIMENT #3 Weathering using chalk and rocks
Desks
20 Learning Log: Text / You (1 fact on each: weathering,
erosion, deposition)
** Writing using Coop strip paragraph during writing block
Day 18
20 Science Book: What is Soil? Pg 182 – 185
Desks
20 Notebook: pg. 82
20 Map of where typical soils are found?????
Desks
(ear to ear)
WEEK #7
Day 19
20 Science Book: Natural Resources pg. 186 – 189
Desks
15 Notebook: pg 83
25 Rock Science Bugaloo
ROCK ART!
Desks