Use a plastic bottle (1 liter or smaller) and sediments from your community to create a sediment
bottle. Don’t fill the bottle more than halfway full with sediments. What types of sediments did you find? What do they look like? What texture do they have?
Step 2.
Add water to fill up the bottle to within 2cm of the cap. Screw on the cap tightly! Use a permanent marker to write your name on the cap.
Step 3.
Shake and observe! Describe your observations in this document >>>
After your sediment bottle has been allowed to stand undisturbed overnight, what do you observe?
(a) Draw and label what you see on the diagram of the sediment bottle.
(b) Describe your observations.
(c) Predict what will happen after your sediment bottle is allowed to sit undisturbed for one week.
Step 5.
Which types of sediments float? Which ones move along the bottom?
Step 6.
If you were to continue moving the bottle for a long time, what would happen to the large sediments?
Step 7.
Would you find fossils in sedimentary rocks? Why or why not?
You should answer all these questions in your group's assigned research book or in a Word document (to be printed out) and kept in your group's filing area of the classroom.
Rock Cycle:
Part 1: Create a sediment bottle!
Step 1.
Use a plastic bottle (1 liter or smaller) and sediments from your community to create a sediment
bottle. Don’t fill the bottle more than halfway full with sediments. What types of sediments did you find? What do they look like? What texture do they have?
Step 2.
Add water to fill up the bottle to within 2cm of the cap. Screw on the cap tightly! Use a permanent marker to write your name on the cap.
Step 3.
Shake and observe! Describe your observations in this document >>>
Part 2: Experiment!
Step 4.
After your sediment bottle has been allowed to stand undisturbed overnight, what do you observe?
(a) Draw and label what you see on the diagram of the sediment bottle.
(b) Describe your observations.
(c) Predict what will happen after your sediment bottle is allowed to sit undisturbed for one week.
Step 5.
Which types of sediments float? Which ones move along the bottom?
Step 6.
If you were to continue moving the bottle for a long time, what would happen to the large sediments?
Step 7.
Would you find fossils in sedimentary rocks? Why or why not?
You should answer all these questions in your group's assigned research book or in a Word document (to be printed out) and kept in your group's filing area of the classroom.
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