<p> Geology Goals and Objectives</p><p>Essential question</p><p>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?</p><p>Goals and objectives</p><p>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</p><p>Matter, Minerals and Rocks (What the Earth is made of)</p><p>When this section is complete students will be able to </p><p>1. List and describe the layers of the Earth</p><p>2. Describe what matter is and the four states it can exist in</p><p>3. Differentiate between an element and a compound</p><p>4. Identify the parts of an atom</p><p>5. List all the things necessary for something to be a mineral</p><p>6. Demonstrate an ability to test a mineral and be able to identify it</p><p>7. List and describe the three types of rocks and give examples of the three</p><p>8. Describe the rock cycle and discuss how one rock can become another rock</p><p>9. Demonstrate an understanding of how a rock forms</p><p>10. Identify a fossil and communicate how a fossil might form</p><p>11. Explain how understanding rocks and minerals help to answer questions about the past</p><p>Coming soon Checklist for Why the Earth looks the way it does. The story of Pangaea</p>