Geology Goals and Objectives

Essential question

How is understanding geology important to our understanding of the Earth’s past? How is understanding geology important to our lives, our health, our families and our future well-being?

Goals and objectives

The goals and objectives are what we want to accomplish in this unit. By accomplishing them we will have a better understanding of the importance geology has on our lives. We may start out thinking all we are going to talk about is rocks and minerals but really geology plays a much bigger role in our lives then we originally might think about. I have listed the objectives for the overall unit of geology but this really will cover several weeks of this year. I am giving you the checklist for the first part of the geology unit

Matter, Minerals and Rocks (What the Earth is made of)

When this section is complete students will be able to

1. List and describe the layers of the Earth

2. Describe what matter is and the four states it can exist in

3. Differentiate between an element and a compound

4. Identify the parts of an atom

5. List all the things necessary for something to be a mineral

6. Demonstrate an ability to test a mineral and be able to identify it

7. List and describe the three types of rocks and give examples of the three

8. Describe the rock cycle and discuss how one rock can become another rock

9. Demonstrate an understanding of how a rock forms

10. Identify a fossil and communicate how a fossil might form

11. Explain how understanding rocks and minerals help to answer questions about the past

Coming soon Checklist for Why the Earth looks the way it does. The story of Pangaea