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Grade 08 Science - EC: S8.D.1.1.1

Grade 08 Science - EC: S8.D.1.1.1

Continuum of Activities

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

  • Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
  • Questions/activities that grow in complexity
  • Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Grade Levels

8th Grade

Course, Subject

Science

Activities

  1. Tree roots can push through rock and break it. What is another way that rock wears away?
    1. Wind erosion
    2. Water erosion
    3. Friction
    4. All of the above

  2. What are the three rock types?
    1. Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
    2. Volcanic, metamorphic, and sedimentary
    3. Volcanic, non-clastic, and igneous
    4. Pumice, corals, and clastic

  3. What two rock groups are formed from all three kinds of rocks?

  4. Based on what you have learned about metamorphic rocks, what does metamorphosing mean?
  1. List two ways rocks can be formed.
  1. Describe how the three rock types, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock, are broken down into their subgroups by what two characteristics.
  1. Explain in detail why it is called the rock cycle.

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. D

  2. A

  3. Metamorphic and sedimentary

  4. Metamorphosing means to transform or change.

  5. Acceptable responses might include, but not be limited to:
    • Erupting volcanos
    • High temperatures
    • Tons of pressure
  1. Acceptable responses might include, but not be limited to:
    The three rock groups are broken down by composition and texture. Composition refers to both the types of minerals within a rock and the overall chemical makeup of the rock while texture refers to the size and arrangement of the minerals or grains that make up a rock.

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