Fossils

1.  Labos virtuelles des fossiles

     Virtual fossil labs

• Introduction to digging fossils
• Virtual fossil dig
• Virtual dino dig
• Geological time and evolution

2.  Movies/Filmes

3.  Faisons les quatre types de fossiles!

     Let's make the four types of fossils!

See the lesson here

Volcanoes

Les volcans / Volcanoes

Today we learnt all about Volcanoes.  I did this simple demonstration to illustrate volcano formation.  See here for an amazing animation and detailed explanation.

Top - Extrusive igneous rock (pumice) from Mt. St. Helen
Middle - Volcano formation demo
Bottom - Ashes from Mt. St. Helen

Vous devez connaître ces termes

Mt Olympe sur Mars

Labos du cycle des roches / Rock Cycle Labs

This blog post is posted both in English (in black) and in French (in blue).

Cette semaine en sciences 7, nous apprenons le cycle des roches grâce à une variété de stations. Voir aussi ci-dessous pour d'autres liens de leçons précédentes.
Enseignants cliquez ICI pour télécharger la partie écrite de laboratoire et autres ressources

This week in Science 7 we will be learning about the rock cycle through a variety of stations.   Also see below for other links from previous lessons.
Teachers click HERE to download the written part of the lab and other resources

Station 1 - Jeu de cycle des roches - Rock Cycle Dice Game
(Click here for photos, instructions, and printables)

Station 2 - Cycles de roches sucre - Jelly Bean Rock Cycle
(Click here for instructions and more)

Click here to enlarge and draw me!!

Station 3 - Classification des Roches - Classifying Rocks
J'ai une boîte de roches et je ne sais pas lesquels sont ignées, sédimentaires ou métamorphiques. S'il vous plaît aidez-moi à les trier! 
I have a box of rocks and have no idea which ones are igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic.  Please help me sort them out!
Use this website to help learn to identify different types of rocks.

click on image to enlarge

Station 4 - Roches Virtuelles - Virtual Rocks
Apprenez tout sur les roches, le cycle des roches et plus!
Learn all about rocks, the rock cycle and more!

•  Interactive rock cycle lab for beginners.  Awesome!
• 2Learn.Ca earth science animations and labs
• Other virtual labs
• Virtual rock and mineral identification lab here
• Classifying rocks lab
• The virtual rock lab
• Read about our previous lesson and how our friend and Canadian astronaut, Jeremy Hansen, is studying geology here.
• BrainPop - Videos Francais ICI

Filmes

Movies

Mineral Lab

Today we learnt about how to identify minerals.  See more here.  

 

Rock Cycle and Space

Space Rocks!
We are learning about the Earth and specifically about rocks and minerals this week.  Almost everything we learn in science can be linked to space and the amazing innovations aboard the ISS.  Our very own Canadian astronaut, Jeremy Hansen, is learning about geology to prepare himself for future endeavors.  See HERE for more details.

CSA Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Performs Geology Field Training From July 16 to 25, 2013

Jeremy Hansen apprendre la géologie en l'artique

pour futures missions spatiales.

Les roches fantastiques!
Voici une copie du résumé du thème 2 que nous avons fait en classe aujourd'hui.

Labos - TBA

• Faire des roches avec des bonbons ICI
• Jeu de roches ICI

Les filmes aussi!

Rock Cycle Song

Rock Cycle Game

Today we played a game to learn all about the rock cycle.  The kids traveled between seven stations:   clouds, mountain, river, ocean, volcano  earth's interior, and soil.  At each station they would roll the dice and be told where to travel through the rock cycle and diagram their journey as a rock.  It included factors such as erosion, tectonic plate movement and subduction, pressure, magma, and more!  (I just like to say MAGMA like Dr. Evil!!).  

See our rock cycle candy demonstration here.  MMMMMM!!

I got my idea here
http://asurvivalguidetomiddleschool.blogspot.ca/2011/10/rock-cycle-stations.html

Lesson plan printable available here
http://www.usc.edu/org/cosee-west/Mar192011/Ride_the_Rock_Cycle.pdf

The large posters and my other rock cycle activities available here
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bzusr5fxwW-TY3gtZGNxOWtYM0k&usp=sharing

Rock Cycle

We learnt about rocks and the rock cycle this week and even had a great demonstration using candy. Let's face it, candy always makes school better (as long as there is gym class after to help burn it off!)

See HERE to listen to the rock cycle song to "Life is a Highway".  The kids had fun singing along.

Check out our ROCK CYCLE GAME!

Teachers see here for more rock cycle activities, links, and printables

See the video here

Minerals

We had a great time learning about mineral identification by testing various minerals hardness, steak, luster, and colour and comparing it to a chart to figure out each one. 

Click here to learn about synthetic diamonds - something one of the kids asked about.

Click here to see a film about it