Respond to the following writing prompt, and write your story in the comment section of this post.
Purpose: To review the rock cycle process.
Directions: Pretend a grain of sand or rock could come to life and tell its story of changing from one type of rock to another during the rock cycle. Write a creative story or poem describing what "Rocky" would experience as he/she goes through the Rock Cycle. Make sure that you describe how this piece of sediment could become part of 3 different types of rock, and how it could become magma.
Resources: The Rock Cycle Prezi (in the blog post below); Pages 92-93 and Chapter 4-1 in the Red Book; Prior Knowledge/Creativity
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Life Story of a Grain of Sand
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I was once a lonely grain of sand. Getting blown away in the wind,falling into many foreign areas that makes my life an adventure. One day, me and all my little sand friends got blown into this foreign place which they called- the volcano.
Suddenly, my body started to melt away as it joined others that screamed in pain. It all happened in a second, and I was one with the lava.
The next day, I started to drift down a mountainside when a cold wind brushed through me and my bretheren. I started to harden, and I couldn't move. After a long time of boredom, a river flowed down on top of me, making me break apart from the group. I fell into an ocean, where I floated down to the bottom, where I then began to sink farther and farther into the ground.
Suddenly, a deep and intense heat came over me and started to break me down again. The cycle was starting again.
I was deposited today and my friends were draged down so i followed them.The pressure from Dorothy above me has forced me deeper. WE BECAME VERY HOT AND LIQUID LIKE. I slowly cooled and now me and mean old Dorothy have combined it is very miserable. "You smell. Its dark. I dislike you. Get a job when can i get away from you." We were lifted up to the surface and a gigantic bear crushed me and dorothy apart.
I was deposited today with my friends and we were all dragged down with the rest of the Sedimentary rocks. All of a sudden, we began moving downward by force with Metamorphic rock. We began getting very hot and under a lot of pressure, then we began melting! We began to rise again, into the Earth's crust, becoming Igneous rock
Ah what an experience. There I was, sitting on a big hill with an interesting whole inside it! It was a typical Tuesday. Just sitting around hanging out with my chums. When all of a sudden a huge puff of grey smoke covered the sky. I turned fire hot and a little river of feisty red liquid sweeped me into it. After some time I cooled and turned hard! It was terrible! But than it got worse! Heat and a ton of pressure occured and I thought I would be surely dead at the end of this experience! At last when all that pain was over and I thought I could live the rest of my life in peace, "erosion" came and blew me everywhere! I landed in a big bowl of blue liquid and quickly fell to the bottom! That was such a excruciating experience! And now here I am going through that all the time 24/7 and its not very fun by the way!
The black Hills were formed when granit and schist settled. then fosser and limstone laned on top. than a week rock named red shale. on top of that was sandstone. there was an up lift of 15000ft. that pushed the rock up to form hill and mountans. due to weathering and erosion that pushed everthing above the schist over, making the granite and schist on top in the middle of everything.
the badlands wouldnt exist because due to weathering and erosion, sediment has been carried over to an area forming the badlands.
Erika think that the mountian will get higher and break away for other rocks.that is what the badland and black hills will look like 40000 years from now.
Brooklyn thinks that everthing will get flater.
Every thing was pointer 40000 years ago in sd
Allison W, Emily S, Makiah S----
So it started out as a normal
Wednesday. But then everything changed. Me, a little grain of sand, changed forever.
I was sitting on a nice little hill in the middle of July. All of a sudden a stream of water washed me into the ocean where I was conjoined with a group of others. We were all one, cemented together on the ocean floor.
Then large forces of the Earth's crust smushed together and forced us downward. Then we were met by intense heat and we were all shrieking in protest of the heat and pressure. We were metamorphic rock.
When we were completely melted we all forged together as magma. Then we slowly started rising to higher levels of the Earth. Then we cooled down and solidified into one as igneous rock.
Just when I thought everything was done, we were exposed by erosion at the Earth's surface. Then we were weathered and we separated from eachother. I thought my journey was done. Finally all alone and separate from the others I was in peace.
But then the whole thing started AGAIN!
I once rested on a hill with the rest of the my rock friends. Then, suddenly; me and my friends started to slide down our hill and into a cold, wet, blue, substance. I have a low pain tolerance and at that time I had to deal with being cemented together with other grains of sand and rock. Then, intense heat and pressure. It was not pleasurable, and then I started to melt into a hot liquid. Ah, it burned! Then I hardened into a hard, crusty igneous rock.
Eventually, I rose to the surface in and uplift, and started to wear away. Suddenly, I was back on the hill, but then the cycle started all over again.
A long time ago I was just a normal rock. After a few days it started to rain. It rained for a long time. After a few years of rain I started to break down. After the rain stoped there was a loud rumble and lava straed to come down the mounten and it grabed me and brok me down even more. When I reached the ocean I stared to harden. When I was hardened all the way I was a gran of sand on a beach.
I was sitting on my favorite mountain that I named Rocky, after myself. I am a lonely grain of sand and Rocky was my only friend. Suddenly, Mt. Rocky turned on me and blasted me with hot lava. I started to melt away. "I'm melting!!!! IM MEEELLLTTTIIIINNNNGGG!!!! But this wasn't what I thought... I was only becoming part of the lava; no longer an independent indevidual. I was racing as fast as i could down the angry Mt. Rocky, and suddenly, the air turned cold. Something felt terribly wrong. I started to harden, and I couldn't run any further. Years later, a gust of rushing water came over me and swept me away. It felt like i was in the midst of a hurricane!!! The awesome power of the water was leading me to the ocean! Once i was there, i settled on the bottom to take a nap. I woke up to a force that was almost unbearable. Is it getting hot in here? I started breaking down again. The cycle continues.
There I was, cold and lonely, in the dark, cold, and lonely depths of the Pacific Ocean. All of the sudden, a whale materializes in front of me! I am caught in the black hole of its mouth, fighting against the current. But all in vain, for it was an uphill battle! Blackout.
I awaken on shore, a single piece of sand on a dark rock. Fate then came for me. A man stepped on me, his wet, horrific foot latching onto me. I heard battle shrieks, and the man was tied to a pole. They climbed to the top of a mountain, yelling "Sacrifice!Sacrifice!" They tossed him into the boiling core of a volcano.
A group of lava surrounds me, and we are hurled out of the mountain! With a thud, we hit the ground. Alas, we were bonded together. Iron and granite rubbed against each other, becoming one. I was among their midst. An igneous rock we became.
Not much later, toxic rain broke us down, eroding and depositing us in a river. Igneous turned to sedimentary, and we were joined once more. However, a landslide changed all that.
The river changed course! We were sent back to the volcano!A crack was formed from the rush in the water, and we dove into our doom in the dire depths! Heat and pressure added more minerals, and we went metamorphic! I don't know how much more time we have before the magma consumes us once again...
I once was a grain of sand, but all of that changed one day. It was a normal day I got blown up high in to the air, I fell into a large mountain with a hole in it. It was reeeeeealy hot!!! I started to melt and form with the People next to me. We started to flow down the side of the large mountain, a large wind picked up and we started to harden. About a day of sitting in the cold weather I was broken off and fell into the ocean where I hit a another underwater valcqno, and it started again
I am a grain of sand. I am on a quiet beach, and then, I start rolling. The wind picks up and a roll faster, faster, faster. and then, I get pulled under, swarming with the magma and pressure. And then, in an instant, I am not a grain of sand, I am Metamrphic. From there I continue to heat up and I become magma. Finally, I get pushed up and cool, becoming Igneous Rock. And, then, I erode, become what I once was.
That was a great life process. There i was, on a hill in the Bad Lands. It started to rain. I rolling down the hill i was on and into a puddle at the bottom of the hill. now i am a SEDIMENTARY ROCK.There I lay for millions of years. On one day all of the sudden there was intense heat and pressure. Now I am METAMORPHIC ROCK. There was even more heat and pressure and i turned into MAGMA. I was slowly cooling and I wieghed less then the other rocks and i ross and turn into IGNEOUS ROCK. I rose more and turned back into SEDIMENT were i started my great journy.
I once sat a deposition of rock so quite and quant on a little cliff in the sky.Then it came, red glowing heat drug me under. With extreme pressure and heat i changed from my life of igneous to sedimentary with. Than again with the hard heat and pressure into metamorphic. I changed over and over again in this endless life cycle of my hard rocky life. For this magma changed my life to pieces.
The experience I went through to become a rock with character is extravigent. On May 15th, 2013 I was blown into a volcano turning into magma. After, a magnificint explosion I quickly cooled become an ingneous rock. Much wind and rain came my way slowly weathering and eroding me away. Because of all of this im currently a rising sedimentry rock. Soon I hope to be affected by heat and pressure to become a metamorphic rock.
Once i was a grain of sand,and taking an adventure with my buddies we went to the volcano. suddenly one of my freinds yelled for help and said they were melting. Before we knew it we were lava and closer than ever! after what seemed like a year my body was slowly rolling down the side of the volcano and was hardening so i couldnt move. suddenly i was floting in water then quickly sinking and felt more as an sand material and when i hit the ground of the body of water heat came over me and i was baking again and the cycle was at it again.
I was just sitting around for what seemed like millions of years then sudenly I was pushed down. I was being squesed and getting really warm then after a while it finaly stoped. But I was wrong after I thought it was over I started to melt and now it was super warm and it started to get warmer and warmer. After a long time I started to rise and when I got free of the dark I was high in the air and felt really good to get out. But after a while I started all of the rock started to disaper slowly but thousands of years later I fell in to the water and drifted to the ocean. I was taken from the ocean towards the shore and was back where I started at. That is what happened in the past million years.
What a view I had on top of The Rocky Mountains . All though the mountain had a magnificent view it had it's down sides too like all that wind.....
I Can't remember how many days I had small rocks smacking against me. Then all of a sudden one day after a strong wind storm, I fell in to the Colorado River below me and I floated down stream. The rocks had weathered me away from my home spot on the mountain.
While I floated down the stream I smacked in to all sorts of things trees, boulders, old boats, and ect. I was being broken down. Then suddenly I saw a head. It seemed as if the river had ended. Man! Was I wrong what was a head was a water fall.
Before I knew it went down theater fall, plummeted down o a large boulder sticking out of the water, and was broken down into sedimentary rock.
Later I settled on the bottom of a lake that the river led to. I thought I would be there for the rest of my life. I was wrong again....
One day a large boat forged through the lake. The power from the large vessel forced me to the continue of the river. After what seemed a life time I came to the Gulf of California and was settled there.
Then after what seemed like ten life times new sedimentary rock had polled up on top of me, and forced me down under the earth crust. Suddenly It started to get hot and had so much pressure on me. I did't know it at the time, but I was being formed into metamorphic rock.
I spent so many years as that type of rock. Until one day things got really hot, and I was melted into magma and was shot out of the Earth from an volcano. I was starting the rock cycle again....
I can remember when i was just a new born rock, light enought for the wind to carry me away. My family was living by the largest volcanos. i just happend to get picked up by the wind and landed on the volcano. I had always wanted to see it up close but relized i was really hot. then i soon started to melt and that was the end. Now this is my spirt comeing back to tell you my story.!
Rocky was once just a grain of sand. Then one day he was picked up by a strong wind. He landed in a river with a bunch of other grains of sand from various beaches. Eventually they formed sedimentary rocks. Next, intense heat and pressure turned Rocky into a metamorphic rock. Then magma and the metamorphic rock met csusing them to mix. Over a period of tim the magma cooled, forming an igneous rock. Finally uplift and weathering turned the Igneous rock into a sediment again. Rocky was once again a grain of sand.
I was washed away by a river and settled at the bottom of a lake. I layed at the bottom for a long long time and I bonded with other grains of sand. I slowly sunk to toward the center of the earth. It got hotter and hotter and I slowly melted. Then I Cooled down again into an igneous rock. Then I went back down into the earth and was exposed to heat and pressure and created a metamorphic rock.
I was once a rock, the wind blowing didn't affect me. Until a big storm came. I got blown into a volcanoe and for years I stayed the same. One day, I turned into lava from all the heat in the volcano. After a few days, when the lava cooled I turned into a rock again, the cycle started over and here I am, lava for now...
This comment by Erika and Brooklyn. Was in the wrong spot sorry.
This is the right one
Rocky's great adventure
Rocky was a sad magma piece.
All he ever wanted to be was igneous, so on Wednesday, he set out to do just that. He cooled and then became fire hot then he cooled again! Sadly, he still wasn't satisfied, so he decided to become sedimentary rock. He weathered himself by having a herd of pigs and bunnies run over him. Then he eroded and finally deposited himself by a volcano. Rocky still wasn't satisfied, so decided to become metamorphic. Through intense heat and pressure, m
He was finally satisfied as a metamorphic rock!!!
I still have bad dreams about when I was magma. I started as a normal piece of rock. Then erosion wore me down to a pebble. Then the wind picked me up and flew me across the ocean and made me land in a volcano. There I combined with other rocks as I was melted down. It was so scary. Then we eventually got out and cooled and formed one big rock. Then the cycle restarted.
It all started out when I was magma. Once the volcano erupted I ran down the street, then while I was sitting in the street I hardend. I became sedimentary rock, then water rushed down and took me with them. I got stuck in a puddle between two cliffs. I hear a big rumble and both cliffs pushed together and made me into medamorphic rock. Now I am happy with what I am now. BOOM! Oh know here we go again.
Sitting in a sand box I got blown away by the wind, landing perfectly in a volcano. Slowly melting into magma and through all the extreme heat and pressure from the valcano, i was set free and started to cool. I knew i was becoming an igneous rock. I became part of a sedimentary rock because of wethering, erosion, and deposition. Then a monkey smashed the rock part and once again i was a grain of sand blown by the wind back to my safe little sand box.
the end.
I was on Mount Rushmore just sitting there resting. Then all of the sudden it started raining and I was no longer a part of Mount Rushmore. I was now a sedimentary rock, I then got packed and heated until I was magma. I then cooled and became a igneous rock, then I melted to become magma again. I was packed into a metamorphic rock, and then the process repeated again and again.
Hi, my name is rocky and i was once just a grain of sand but I undergoed a few changes... when i was just a little grain of sand i was packed together on the earths surface with a whole bunch of strangers, i found myself a sedimentary rock that day! but as the years flew by it became too hot to stayr in my solid form and i turned into magma... on my last day of being magama i was pushed away and i started cooling rapidly and i found i had turned into an igneous rock... but it wasnt long before it started getting hot again and i was being squeezed so hard i had turned into a metamorphic rock! and that is how I, Rocky, have turned into a rock...
hi im yo of the rockyness(rocky) i just came out of the volcano to cool off. i got a little fiery back there.but that's okay water is taking me in pieces. wow this is hard i'm under alot of pressure. yes i'm moving abit. here's the heat and more pressure. now i'm fiery again.
Once I was a normal sedimentary rock, but then I changed one day. On a stormy bitter night the wind whistled through the trees getting furious with every second. Abruptly the wind pushed me over the edge of the mountain that sent me spiraling down into the depth of the night. The next morning I felt different. I realized I had changed into a Metamorphic rock, I had formed from the Earths crust colliding and I was forced downward. There was lots of intense heat and pressure. Miracously I felt myself turn into a liquid. There was some shifting and suddenly there I was turned into magma. I was all hot liquid; pretty soon I later cooled down. I turned into an igneous rock. Then I realized that this cycle would continue again and again but not in the same order.
Here I am magma,
You know what rhymes with magma?
Wanna get cool,
Wanna chill.
Wanna rock,
Igneous rock.
Oh rain,
What a pain!
Sediment friends
Make me sane.
Getting closer,
Very close.
Hello brothers,
Look like we are stuck together,
Oh man, we rock
Wanna rock,
Sedimentary rock.
Yeah, it’s getting hot in here,
Now the pressure’s on!
I was being changed,
Rearranged,
Into a new form.
Wanna rock,
Metamorphic rock.
Let’s melt,
It felt…good.
To be magma again!
(Parents help)
I was just chilling on a hill with my sand buddies. When a crazy wind just blew us into the water where we were cemented together. We were now a sedimentary rock and the waves pushed us onto a volcanic island were we melted into a metamorphic rock. More melting came and we turned into magma then we cooled into a igneous rock. Then it started over and over again.
I used to be just a lonely piece of sand on the Coast of Hawaii. Then I was put with other peices of sand. I later found myself a SEDIMENTRY ROCK!! As I lived as a sedimentary rock the climate got to hot for my solid form I was turned into MAGMA!! While being magma on my last day the humans were having a bonfire. Then all of a sudden I got really cold really fast.! I got worried. Untill later I found myself to be an IGENOUS ROCK. But it wasn't long before I got super oper hot again I got so hot that I was squished into a METAMORPHIC ROCK!! Finally I was able to sit and relax with my other rock buddies.
THE END
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