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NSDL Brown Bag Series Beyond Penguins & Polar Bears: Integrating Science & Literacy in the Elementary Classroom January 22, 2009 6:30pm - 7:45 pm Eastern Brought to you by the National Science Digital Library Resource Center in partnership with Ohio State University and Stafford County Public Schools For audio, dial our free conference number: 866.740.1260 Code: 4972943

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NSDL Brown Bag SeriesBeyond Penguins & Polar Bears: Integrating Science & Literacy in the Elementary Classroom

January 22, 2009

6:30pm - 7:45 pm Eastern

Brought to you by the National Science Digital Library Resource Center

in partnership with Ohio State University and Stafford County Public Schools

For audio, dial our free conference number: 866.740.1260 Code: 4972943

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NSDL Brown Bag SeriesBeyond Penguins & Polar Bears: Integrating Science & Literacy in the Elementary Classroom

January 22, 2009Today’s moderator:Robert PayoNSDL Education & Outreach Specialist

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Welcome! Today’s session will be recordedMute: *6 Unmute: *7

For audio: dial conference number 866.740.1260 Code: 4972943

Let’s find out more about you:Introduce yourself and let us know why you chose to join us tonight

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Today’s NSDL Expert

Jessica Fries-Gaither, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Project Director and Elementary Resource Specialist, Ohio State University

http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org

For audio: dial conference number 866.740.1260 Code: 4972943

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Overview of Presentation

1. Teaching About Rocks and Minerals2. Integrating Science and Literacy

For audio: dial conference number 866.740.1260 Code: 4972943

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http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org

Today’s presentation: Featuring material related to Issue 6: Rocks and Minerals (September 2008)

Resource list for Stafford County webinars can be found at http://www.diigo.com/list/nsdlworkshops/staffordcounty

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http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/

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Classification

A research-based strategy for helping students identify similarities and differences.

“Classifying involves organizing elements into groups based on their similarities. One of the critical elements of classifying is identifying the rules that govern class or category membership.”

- Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock. 2001. Classroom Instruction that Works.

Teaching rocks and minerals naturally provides opportunities for teacher and student-directed

classification activities.

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Misconception Alert!Students often use nonscientific language (pebble, rock, stone) and attend to irrelevant properties (color, shape, size, weight) when classifying rocks.

Help students view rocks through the lens of a geologist by:o linking characteristics to rock type and formationo keep descriptive writing assignments separate from science activitieso brainstorming a list of relevant and irrelevant properties for

classificationo Examining a wide variety of specimenso Reading about geology and inviting a geologist to speak to the class

Learn more at:

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Sampling, Observing, and Describing

Rock Huntershttp://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=365Students collect rocks, make a variety of observations (color, size, texture, weight), and measure using nonstandard units (paper clip chains).

Using Children's Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writinghttp://readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=52 Students make a class book. Each student draws a rock on the back of a sheet of paper. On the front, they write three clues that describe the rock.

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Minerals

Minerals – the Building Blocks of Rockshttp://geologyonline.museum.state.il.us/tools/lessons/0.3/lesson.htmlUsing cookies as rocks, this lesson demonstrates how minerals serve as the building blocks of rocks.

Exploring Mineralshttp://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/07_4_RocksandMinerals.pdf Students investigate the hardness and luster of various minerals.

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Let’s pause for questions from the audience….

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Types of Rocks

Rock Hounds with Rockyhttp://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/index2.htmlA web-based, interactive site for students to learn about sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks.

Find more books at:

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Modeling sedimentary and igneous rock

Making Sedimentary Rockshttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/teacher_resources/teach_makerock.htmlStudents make a model of sedimentary rock layers to understand how rocks form layers and represent ancient environments.

Igneous Rockshttp://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3688Study Your Rocks and Eat Them Too!Model the formation of extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks by cooking pancakes on low and high heat. Students can link the air holes formed to pumice and basalt.

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Modeling metamorphic rocks:

Sandstone

Shale

Slate

See “Changing Rocks” in : http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/07_4_RocksandMinerals.pdf

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The Rock Cycle

Students can createa flip book to illustrate the various processes of the rock cycle.

Learn more about the rock cycle:

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Share your thoughts

What do you find most challenging when teaching rocks and minerals to your students? How have you found success in teaching it effectively?

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Antarctic Rock Box

United States Polar Rock Repositoryhttp://bprc.osu.edu/education/rr/rock_box/

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Share your thoughts

Share with the group how you integrate science and literacy. How do you get your students excited to read about science?

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Reader of the Rocks

Find these at:

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Determining Importance

Good readers…

Differentiate between main ideas and interesting details

…when they read nonfiction text.

Learn more and download templates for grades 2-5:

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Geology Poetry

More titles from our Rocks and Minerals Virtual Bookshelf

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Interested in learning more?

Beyond Penguins Web Seminar Series: Arctic and Antarctic BirdsApril 21, 2009 6:30pm - 8:00pm

August 2008, Issue 5 http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Bloghttp://expertvoices.nsdl.org

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears PodcastsJanuary 2009, Issue 10

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THANK YOU!

http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org

Jessica Fries-Gaither [email protected]

Resource list for tonight’s presentation:http://www.diigo.com/list/nsdlworkshops/staffordcounty

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National Science Digital Library Resource Center

Kaye Howe, Executive DirectorSusan Van Gundy, Deputy Director

NSDL Brown Bag Moderators:Eileen McIlvain, Communications ManagerRobert Payo, Education and Outreach Specialist

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