A Rock To Remember/Background

Thesis Statement
Using the Mater Christi School curriculum as a guide, this lesson plan will include lessons for the fifth and seventh grades on the earth sciences. It will work to give a basic understanding of plate tectonics, geology, glacier movement, and the formation of Lake Champlain to students. In addition there will be a chance for teachers to extend learning outside the classroom at different locations in the area.

Basic Lesson Plan Outline: Fifth Grade
History of Lake Champlain

-Geological Timeline

-What did Vermont look like in the ice age?

-The Changing Shape of Lake Champlain

Lake Vermont

Champlain Sea

Lake Champlain

Rock Identification

-Sedimentary, Metamorphic, Igneous

-What types of rocks do we find in VT?

-Fossils

Basic Lesson Plan Outline: Seventh Grade
Plate Tectonics

-What is it?

-Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Tsunamis

-Convection cycles

-The breaking up of Pangea and how the Continents were formed

-Mountain formations

-The Green Mountains

-The Adirondacks

Glaciers

-What are they?

-VT landscape

-Glaciers today and global warming