Around the World: Italy SCIENCE PACK

This 97 PAGE SCIENCE PACK has it ALL for teaching about Italy's unique geological landscape.

This pack covers 4 main topic areas:
- PLATE TECTONICS
- overview of plate tectonics, review of Pangea, discussion of the types of plate movements and their consequences (earthquakes, volcanoes, etc).
- SIX plate tectonic experiments to review what was learned
- Additional worksheets, cut and paste, definition and experiment observation sheets

- VOLCANOES
- How volcanoes are formed, types of volcanoes, types of magma/gasses in each volcano, focus on two active volcanoes in Italy, discussion of Ring of Fire and Italy's unique volcanic geography
- SIX volcano experiments to review what was learned
- Additional worksheets, cut and paste, definition and experiment observation sheets

- IGNEOUS ROCKS
- How igneous rocks are formed, types of igneous rocks (intrusive, extrusive, felsic, mafic, etc), characteristics,
- Three igneous rock experiments
- Additional worksheets, cut and paste, rock identification cards

- CRYSTAL FORMATION
- What are crystals? How do they differ from rocks, minerals, how are crystals formed, how does temperature affect crystal formation in igneous rocks.
- 10 crystal formation experiments