SIOP Lesson Plan

Standards:

 Identify Earth’s materials can be broken down and/or combined into different materials such
as rocks, minerals, rock cycle, formation of soil, and sand – some of which are usable
resources for human activity.

 Investigate and identify two or more ways that Earth’s materials can be broken down or
combined in different ways such as minerals into rocks, rock cycle, formation of soil, and
sand

Theme: Science

Lesson Topic: The formation of rocks

Objectives:

 Language:

Students will be able to identify and describe the way that the 3 different types of rock,
(igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary) form using a graphic organizer and different
sentences.

 Content:

Students will explain three different ways that rocks are formed using descriptive vocabulary
such as adverbs and adjectives provided in sentences frames to complete a graphic
organizer.

Learning Strategies:

 Visual
 Applied
 Creative
 Social

Key Vocabulary:

 Igneous
 Metamorphic
 Sedimentary
 Formation
 Rock cycle
Materials:

 Rock samples (igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary)

 Sand or different colors
 Mason jars
 Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPgE74Vltdc
 4 different colors of play-dough
 Frosting holder
 Bakers bag
 Paper
 Pencils
 Colored
 Pencils
 Graphic organizer

Motivation:
(building background)

The teacher will ask the students turn and talk with a partner to discuss what they already know
about the formation of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Then we will watch a short
video that introduces the 3 types of rocks and what causes them to form.

Presentation:
(language and content objectives, comprehensible input, strategies, interaction and feedback)

Before the lesson starts the teacher will introduce the content and language objectives for students
that will be able to explain the different ways that igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks
form. They will be able to describe the formation process of each rock using describe vocabulary
like adjectives and adverbs. During the lesson, When we talk about formation we mean the way
that something is created and everything that is on the Earth has been created or formed and the
same thing is true of the rocks that we find on our Earth.” There are 3 ways that rocks form in
nature, sedimentary rocks form over time as different layers of sand, rock, and soil pack on top of
each other. Igneous rocks form from volcanic explosions, the lava cools and during that cooling it
forms a solid rock. Metamorphic rock is a rock that forms underneath the Earth’s crust. It forms
when magma cools in the mantle and is pushed up through the Earth’s crust.” (I do)

Practice and Application:

(meaningful activities, interaction, strategies, practice and application, feedback)

The teacher will be using many different activities to keep the student involved. We will do this
activity whole group (Depending on class size). The first task will be where the students are
creating mason jars with multiple layers of sand to represent the different layers of a sedimentary
rock. The second station will be for metamorphic rock the students will press different colors of
play-dough together to illustrate the pressure and heat needed to create a metamorphic rock. The
last station students will demonstrate metamorphic rock formation by putting melted chocolate into
a frosting funnel and squeezing the chocolate out like a volcano and then breaking up to create
‘rocks’ when it cools.
To reinforce this I will have students hold up each rock that they have made and tell how it
happened, ‘this rock was made from the heat and pressure, this rock was made from layer, this
rock was made from lava in a volcano.”

Review and assessment:

(review objectives, vocabulary, asses learning)

To demonstrate their understanding students will complete a graphic organizer that illustrates the
process for rock formation and a sentence or two that explains how this process happens.

Extension:

In the case that there is more time at the end of the lesson, the student will start to conduct his own
sentence frames to get them started on their graphic organizer. I will also provide visuals of each of
the rock types so students can see what they have.

For students that are ready they can write a few more sentences on the formation of rock and what
rocks they see where we live. Then they can create a comparing and contrasting of the ways that
rocks form in nature. They can create a Venn diagram or a four-column T chart.
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