As a way to pull together everything we’ve learned in this Rocks and Minerals chapter, students learned about Oil and Petroleum today.  From how it is formed in nature to where it can be found and how it can be extracted from rocks, students worked in cooperative pairs to gain knowledge about this important nonrenewable resources from a 6-page resource file from an online database.

Students worked to structure some self-guided notes on the topic with the assistance of a generalized note-taking outline.  Since we’ve completed so many guided notes as a large group already this year, an additional objective of today’s lesson was for students to begin to tackle the organizational structure of notes more independently.  They were given a Generalized Notes Outline to get them started.  These guided notes are due at the start of class on Monday.  If students need to check out a copy of the “Oil and Petroleum” file, they were allowed to do so after school or just access the file online.

Homework:  Complete “Oil & Petroleum” guided notes by Monday.