Optional Project for Marking Period 3
You may complete an optional project for marking period three to improve your grade. If you choose to complete the project you need to closely follow the directions in order to receive any additional credit. There are two choices for the project. You may choose to do one project. The Common Uses of Elements is worth a 50 point grade. The second option is a comic strip about the Rock Cycle. Those directions follow the Common Uses of Elements directions. The comic strip is a 100 point grade.
If you go to HomeworkNow.com, Mr. Lichter's Science 6, you will find a PowerPoint Template and directions for completion of the optional project. Following the guidelines, research and then type information and add pictures into the FanDeck PowerPoint template.
The title and topic of the project is Common Uses of Elements. You need to select five different elements to research. The template has six blades. The first one should be a title blade with a title and your name and period. It should include a picture to go along with the project. For example, you could include The Periodic Table of Elements. Each of the other fan blades (five) needs to have the name of an element, the chemical symbol, the uses of the element, and at least one picture. Make your project informative and colorful.
Your project, typed into PowerPoint, should be printed by you. If you do not have a printer available at home, you may go to Homework Clinic, located in the Cybrary Monday through Friday before school and Monday through Thursday after school, and print your fan. Then, cut out the fan blades, and push a brad or ring though the dark dots. Do not forget to put your name on your FanDeck.
If you choose to do the optional project, it must be turned in by Monday, March 31st. Projects cannot be e-mailed to your teacher. FanDecks, printed in the PowerPoint program, must be turned in to receive credit. No late projects will be accepted.
Due Date: Monday, March 31st, 2014.
The Rock Cycle
· Imagine that you are a rock as big as a baseball. Your home is on a sunny hillside and you can see down into a deep valley with a river roaming far below. Sometimes it is very hot there. During the winter you get worried about the ice that freezes in the crack on top of you. This crack grows bigger each year because the ice pushes hard on the sides of the crack.
· One spring it is very wet, wetter than you can ever remember. The rain pours in little streams rushing down the hillside. Suddenly you feel a rumbling and the Earth begins to shake. You look uphill and a large wall of mud rushes down and sweeps you up. You begin to roll down, down, down into the valley. You hit another rock and you split along the crack. Now you are two halves rolling down the hill.
· Splash! You land in the river. For days and days you are pushed by the swift, strong waters. Rolling and bumping along you are getting all broken up into gravel and sand. Finally the river enters the ocean and your many pieces settle onto a large, flat area along with millions of pieces of sand, gravel and silt. Some pieces settle on top of you and you are getting squished. Your pieces get pushed and stuck together with other pieces. You are now hardening and becoming a sedimentary rock.
· The pressure grows and you begin to get warmer and warmer. You change color and form into many hard crystals. Now you're a metamorphic rock. You keep getting pushed farther down. Everything begins to melt and you are part of a hot mass of melted rock called magma deep underground. It seems like forever that you are part of this big melted sea of rock.
· Wait, you're being pushed up and the Earth is shaking and rumbling again. You can feel yourself rising higher and higher. Fire, ash, dust, and steam surround you and, with a loud explosion, you burst up out of the top of a volcano. Red-hot lava is all around. You are a scalding, steamy piece of lava shooting through the air when, suddenly, you land on a high point of the volcano away from the hot flow of lava below. Slowly the volcano begins to quiet down and the lava cools and hardens. You are now a cold, grey igneous rock on top of a high volcano looking down at a river flowing far below. When the dark ashes blow away and the sky clears, the sun comes out and warms you high up on the volcano- your new home.
Due: Monday, March 31st, 2014
You must have at least 6 boxes illustrating your story, using
the 12" by 18" paper given in class.