March

=March 31= Today we started our unit on rocks and how they are different that the minerals we studied two weeks ago! We watched a video, took notes, and had a short quiz to see what we had learned. This will get us ready for tomorrow when we take a closer look at the Igneous family!

=March 24= Today we looked closely at Igneous Rocks. Some of us did a fantastic job with our scientific drawings and we had to classify each of our 6 samples as Intrusive or Extrusive, Felsic or Mafic, Fine-Grained or Course-Grained. The PowerPoint we are using to take notes before we look at our samples is here -

=March 23= Today we started our unit on rocks and how they are different that the minerals we studied two weeks ago! We watched a video, took notes, and had a short quiz to see what we had learned. This will get us ready for tomorrow when we take a closer look at the Igneous family!

=March 16= Today we opened our new Edmodo accounts! We also started our unit on Minerals. We explored a website to learn what tests geologists perform on minerals to determine their identities! We are preparing for our mineral lab on Wednesday when we will conduct many of these same tests.

=March 3= Today we worked really hard on our science wikis! We are adding our pictures, videos, and lots of great science information as we study the structure of the Earth. Check out our work at http://core1science.wikispaces.com or our classmates' work at http://core2science.wikispaces.com!