Key Questions Learning Objectives Teaching and Learning Activities Resources and Websites What is a rock? What words can describe these rocks? How can we sort these rocks into groups? What is a fossil? What is a mineral? What is a metal? What is an ore? -------------------- Can you find the Dorchester area on the British Geological Survey map? Can you use this resource to identify some of the names of rocks that occur locally? Develop awareness of variety of properties of rocks, variations in colour, patterns and shapes within, hardness, crumbliness. Teacher to introduce activity. Emphasise the need to cooperate and listen to each other’s opinions. Working in effective “Talk Groups” the children- Label different “rocks/non-rocks” with descriptive words (adjectives). Sort the into different groups according to their properties (eg “These are crumbly and you can break bits off, but these are hard.”) Children “jigsaw” with a different group to share ideas (and swap “Talk Partners”) Teacher leads discussion of findings and ideas. Bring in “Key Questions” Some may be directly answered by the teacher, some may be better to be researched together, allowing the teacher to model research techniques. (eg “Let’s use Wikipedia to find out what is meant by an ore.”) The Oxford University Museum of Natural History has a useful website to help answer some of these questions of definition. Having taken out the the teacher then shows the children the rocks that were collected from the ground in the local area. Large selection of rocks to include the following: “worked” (human shaped) rocks such as bricks, piece of concrete, rocks with fossils and some isolated fossils, sand, coal, metal objects, charcoal (not a rock), moist clay and compact soil. Pieces of paper for labels Pens/pencils Oxford University Museum of Natural History website: Internet access for the children
Show the children the British Geological Survey website Demonstrate how to navigate this. to search for rock types and how to overlay the geo-transparency with the human geography The children “scale down” the G.B. map to find our local area. They explore the names of the rocks present in our locality. Make a list of names of rock found locally. Lesson Two; How Do People Use Rocks? Key Questions Learning Objectives Teaching and Learning Activities Resources and Websites What things are made from rocks? What parts of buildings are made from rocks? What is an ore? What is quarrying? What is mining? What is smelting? What are bricks and how are they made? What is glass and how is it made? Rocks are used by people in many different ways. They can be cut into useful shapes to use in buildings. Some rocks are ores and contain metal inside them that can be extracted/ taken out. So all metals come from rocks. People can use combinations of rocks and (sometimes involving very high Play game “Make made from rocks or not?” card sets (Appendix 2). Working in pairs or small groups the children discuss which cards have the name of something made from rocks, and which do not. Discussion following game Investigate how people use rocks. Teacher led class discussion + use of websites suggested. Lower ability- Label the parts of the house that are made from rock. (See activity sheet Appendix 1) Make a list of things in the classroom that have been made from rock. Activity sheet Appendix 1 “Made from rocks or not?” card sets - Appendix 2 Card, pencils, coloured pencils to create poster
The First World War (28 July 1914 -11 November 1918) Queen Elizabeth 2nd born 1926 – became Queen 1952 The Second World War 1939-1945. Appendix 12 Stones in Architecture – Portesham and Abbotsbury Can you see the difference in the colour of the stone used in making this semi-detached house in Portesham? On the left you can see the lighter more grey stone that comes from the Portesham quarry. But the part on the right has reddish brown stones that come from 2 or 3 kilometres away in Abbotsbury. I wonder why the builders used different stones. Perhaps they just got a good offer on a delivery from Abbotsbury and it worked out cheaper to do it this way? Portesham Abbotsbury