Rock Cycle: Crystal Structures

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  • HW:

  • CW: Crystals Mini-Book with Cooled Fast, Cooled Slow, Basic Cube, Body Centered Cube, and Face Centered Cube

  • DN: Take a blank sheet of paper and make a mini-book. Draw a crystal on the cover and add title.

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LESSON OUTLINE

5min Students complete the Do Now by making mini-book with ‘Crystals’ as title and cover art.

5min Teacher distributes marshmallows and toothpicks.

20min Crystal Structures. Students build models for the basic, body-centered, and face-centered cubes (cubic structures). Examples are added to mineral book.

10min Little Crystals vs Big Crystals. Students model fast vs slow cooling by only being given a short amount of time to connect marshmallows to each other with toothpicks. Examples are added to mineral mini-book.

5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.

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