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The rock cycle

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Loose grains of sand lie in a thick layer on the sea bed. Which process turns this layer into solid rock?

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Rocks are never finished. Follow a grain of quartz from a granite hill to the sea bed and beyond, and find out how one type of rock becomes another over millions of years.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — The rock cycle
  5. Seven processes in the rock cycle (not a fixed order)
  6. I Do
  7. Hinge Check
  8. We Do
  9. Task — Name the missing process arrows
  10. Task — The life story of a sand grain
  11. Self-Check
  12. Homework
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