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DEQ GSD - The Rock Cycle in Michigan - February 2001 DEQ GSD - The Rock Cycle in Michigan - February 2001 The Rock Cycle in Michigan Student activity: What rocks have students found in their neighborhood? Have your students write a story or essay (with photographs or drawings) about what rocks are used in buildings and as ornaments in their neighborhood / town / area. Are they local materials or were they imported. Can the students identify the rocks? Please send a copy of your students’ work to Steve Wilson, MI DEQ OGS, P?O?Box?30256, Lansing 48909; via email to wilsonse@M. Their work will be compiled and posted to the OGS web site. Please include teacher’s name, grade, school name, city and student’s name. For more information and background about salt go to / Created October 2, 2000 ; rev 10, 2004 Segue slide Terms are defined in the Glossary for Rock Cycle in Michigan. Student activity. Journal on the rocks: Have students keep a journal and/or write an essay of their observations of sedimentary process in action around them. Have them make notes about what they see that relates to the various sedimentary processes currently at work around home, in their neighborhood and where they travel. Things like gullies forming on hill sides, streams carrying sediments especially after a heavy rain (why do streams carry sediments all the time?), rounded boulders are physical weathering, a road cut showing layers of sediments. This exercise with help them become more aware and observant of their environment. The assignment could be for an extended period of time with regular reports as to the status of their observations - what they saw when and where. You can set a format for the report or let the students ‘find out as they go’ and learn for what each other does. This further reinforces the idea that science is observation and interpretations of what they see. They can also include what kinds of rocks are used in fences, buildings and cemeteries in their an