Fossils in Kitchen Counters?! What clues can fossils give us about our geologic past?

Fossil Project - Wholly Mammoths in Colorado Bedrock!

Students, please explore these websites to help us launch our "Fossil Project!" Create mini-wordles on your note-taking sheet as you pull out key words or unknown words you see or hear.  Also, there is a final section to write notes or ask questions as they arise when you are exploring.  Have fun!

1.) http://www.snowmassiceage.com/

2.) www.dmns.org/science/the-snowmastodon-project

3.) http://www.fossilsforkids.com/


4.) http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/fossils

5.) http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/fossilhalls/

6.) http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/fossils/index.html

Rock Cycle Story - VoiceThread #1

Rock Abrasion Lab

Tomorrow students will be designing an experiment in cooperative pairs to better understand how different types of rock weather through abrasion.  This will be the first attempt for these young scientists in designing and conducting an experiment!  Students will be analyzing and manipulating several variables to see which design best tests their hypothesis.  Stay tuned for a potential video/pictures that demonstrates our learning in action!

Other notes:
*Please click on the new link entitled, "Daily Learning Goals" to see our classroom learning.  Students and parents can use this as a resource to check student planners confirming the learning of each day, classroom work, and homework assignments.  This will be a great resource during absences as well.
*Edmodo will be upcoming shortly as this is dependent upon computer lab time.  I hope to have this up and running soon.
*On Friday, students will be publishing their "Rock Cycle Journey" in a VoiceThread.  This will be posted the following week!