KS3 - Rock Cycle & Salol Practical

KS3 - Rock Cycle & Salol Practical

Includes worksheets, approx lesson plan and timings, needs grated chocolate as demo of how rocks are formed.
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Links to prior topics :
Earth Science 1 (rock types)
Earth Science 2 (spheres)

Skills Developed:
Practical skills, Microscope skills, observation, note making

Learning Objectives :

Revise previously covered Earth Chemistry (spheres, rocks)
Learn about how Rocks are formed so that you can explain their structures

Assessment Criteria for Objectives:
Fill in rock cycle
Determine crystal structure formation
explain the structures of marble (metamorphic), pumice (Igneous) and sandstone (sedimentary) and how they are formed. [assessed next lesson]

Teaching & Learning Strategies
Animation, demonstration, practical observations, practical work

Resources / Materials Required

Chocolates for 'choc cycle '
Salol + slides /m’scopes
Bunsen burner

Lab Safety Considerations [CLEAPSS / Hazcards / COSHH]

Salol, chocolate allergies/nuts , bunsen flame

Practical Work/Demonstration
Salol slides hot/cold

Literacy /Numeracy/ICT incl. School-wide objectives
Visual descriptors of what they see, writing to articulate information

Other Broader/Cross-curricular links –
Sustainability, geology/geography