1. Wednesday 1/4/17
Notebook Entry: Below is a list of everyday objects that are minerals. Besides being a mineral, what is 1 other thing the objects in the list have in common?
Graphite in a pencil
Salt you put on your food
Copper wire in your computer
Fluoride in your toothpaste
Quartz in mirrors

2. Beach Sand Read the text under the picture.
ON THE LEFT SIDE ONLY write the following
Name of person you agree with.
Why do you agree with that person?
How do you think sand forms and ends up on beaches.
Turn into the class drawer

3. SketchNoting: How To Do It

5. Two-Column Sketch Notes
Topic: Minerals
What are Minerals?
While reading and doing pages 32-34; together we will take 2 column notes.
The notes will focus on what makes something a mineral.
You are expected to included features of sketch notes.

6. Matter: anything that has mass and takes up space

7. is naturally occurring
A mineral…
is naturally occurring
forms by inorganic processes (not from something that is or was once living)

8. has a crystal structure (particles line up in a pattern)
A mineral…
is a solid
has a crystal structure (particles line up in a pattern)

9. A mineral
has a definite chemical composition (always contains certain elements)
CaF2 = Flourite

10. What is an element?
Element: a substance made up of only one kind of atom

11. Exit Ticket Finish the two sentences below.
Write your answers on the notecard.
I used to think a mineral was….
Now I think a mineral is….