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    The document describes an experiment using chocolate to model the rock cycle, in which chocolate represents sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks. Students will make each rock type by melting, cooling, and pressing chocolate in different ways using aluminum foil and hot water. The purpose is to illustrate how the three main rock types can transform into each other over time through natural geological processes like heat, pressure, and erosion.

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    The document describes an experiment using chocolate to model the rock cycle, in which chocolate represents sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks. Students will make each rock type by melting, cooling, and pressing chocolate in different ways using aluminum foil and hot water. The purpose is to illustrate how the three main rock types can transform into each other over time through natural geological processes like heat, pressure, and erosion.

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    The document describes an experiment using chocolate to model the rock cycle, in which chocolate represents sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks. Students will make each rock type by melting, cooling, and pressing chocolate in different ways using aluminum foil and hot water. The purpose is to illustrate how the three main rock types can transform into each other over time through natural geological processes like heat, pressure, and erosion.

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    The document describes an experiment using chocolate to model the rock cycle, in which chocolate represents sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks. Students will make each rock type by melting, cooling, and pressing chocolate in different ways using aluminum foil and hot water. The purpose is to illustrate how the three main rock types can transform into each other over time through natural geological processes like heat, pressure, and erosion.

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    Mineralogy block

    Main lesson

    Day 8 (Wednesday June 17)


    Rock cycle
    You already learned about the rock cycle, so today you are going to do an experiment to see the process.
    Experiment
    Materials: you have the chocolate and the aluminum foil inside your bag

    Aluminum foil
    Chocolate
    Hot water and a container to hold it
    A plastic knife or another simple scraping device

    instructions:

    First, make "sedimentary" chocolate:

    1. Scrape some small shavings from your chocolate.

    2. Gather these scrapings onto a piece of aluminum foil and press down on them. You might fold the
    aluminum foil and then press on the chocolate shavings. You could even stand on enclosed foil packages.

    3. Observe the joined-together bunch of chocolate scrapings in the foil, which is now similar to
    sedimentary rock.

    Second, make "metamorphic" chocolate:

    1. Place a small pile of your sedimentary chocolate, maybe some of your original unused shavings, and a
    couple of small chunks from your original blocks into aluminum foil or a cupcake holder.

    2. Float this concoction on medium hot water.

    3. Watch as the heat from the water transfers to the foil and chocolate, which should start to melt.

    4. Remove the foil when the chocolate is soft to the touch (for safety, use the plastic knife, not fingers).

    5. Let the chocolate cool. The partially melted and cooled chocolate is now similar to metamorphic rock.

    Third, make "igneous" chocolate:

    1. Place a small pile of sedimentary and metamorphic chocolate and some chunks from the original
    blocks into your aluminum foil or cupcake holder.
    2. Float this concoction on very hot water.

    3. Watch as the heat transfers from the water to the foil and melting chocolate. Allow the chocolate to
    melt until a smooth liquid forms.

    4. Carefully remove the molten chocolate and let it cool, still contained in aluminum. Your melted and
    cooled chocolate is now similar to igneous rock

    The “chocolate cycle” is designed to mirror the rock cycle. The rock cycle is a continuing process that has
    occurred throughout geological time. One type of rock can become another type over time. Very little
    rock on the surface of the earth has remained fixed in its original rock type. Most rocks have undergone
    several changes of the rock cycle!

    When you finish with the experiment you are going to take out your portfolio and you are going
    to copy the following information.

    Rock cycle

    The rock cycle is an important aspect of our changing Earth because it allows rocks to change to
    different types of rock depending on their location and circumstances.

    The rock cycle consists of the three types of rocks and how each one can form into the other one.
    The three type of rocks are metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary. For these types of rocks to
    form into one other, there are processes that need to occur for one to form into another, such as
    weathering and erosion, melting and cooling, and pressure and heat.

    After you finish copying the information you are going to take out from the bag the following pages and
    you are going to solve them. Remember you have them printed.

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