The Rock Cycle
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Subject Area: Science | Grade Level: 6
Lesson Length: 15 minutes or less
Keywords/Tags: Rock Cycle
Lesson Description: In this lesson, students will investigate the rock cycle. This includes students utilizing prior knowledge of how each type of rock is formed to then analyze how each rock can change from one from to another.

  • Other S6E5. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to show how Earth’s surface is formed.rnc. Construct an explanation of how to classify rocks by their formation and how rocks change through geologic processes in the rock cycle
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Video : The Rock Cycle Song
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.")Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.")
Description: Refresh your knowledge of the three types of rocks and how their formation process connects to the rock cycle.
Quiz : The Rock Cycle Song
Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.
Question #1

What are the three main types of rocks?

Question #2

What happens when a rock is weathered and eroded? 

Question #3

What type of rock can contain fossils? 

Question #4

When rocks are undergo extreme heat and pressure deep within the Earth, they can change into which type of rock?

Question #5

What type of rock has wavy layers? 

Question #6

In the rock cycle, what type of rock can form directly from molten magma or lava? 

Question #7

What process involves the melting of rocks and the formation of molten magma? 

Question #8
For a metamorphic rock to tu into an igneous rock, it must first melt. 
Question #9
The rock cycle is a continuous and never-ending process that describes the transformation of rocks on Earth.
Question #10
How can an igneous rock tu into a sedimentary rock? How can that sedimentary rock tu into a metamorphic rock? Please write in complete sentences. 
Resources : Rock Cycle Resources
Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.
Ducksters: Rocks and the Rock Cycle
Read the following article to learn more about rocks and the rock cycle.
Video: The Rock Cycle
Watch the video to see the rock cycle in action throughout the world!
Rock Cycle Interactive Virtual Lab
Use the link to complete a rock cycle virtual lab.