Handouts given for completion in notebooks 

Introduce weather conditions and forecast for day and three day.

Compare three day to past, present and future.
Collect weather data for climatology completion activity for Maryland.

Individual presentations will be given on the following topics:

• Slate and the formation of metamorphic rocks in the rock cycle
• Importance of Peach Bottom slate in the slate industry during the early to mid 1900's

Here students will tour the museum and learn of the history of Peach Bottom slate and the quarries from which it was mined.  While driving through Cardiff, Maryland and Delta, Pennsylvania, observe the houses and building roofs made of Peach Bottom slate.
 
 

Pit is about 800 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 70 feet deep to the water elevation.  Water is about 70 feet deep.

Broken into groups of 2 or 3, groups will compete in a "Slate Splitting" Competition, using safety goggles, chisel, and hammer obtaining samples from the remains of the waste pile.

Before breaking for lunch, weather data will be collected for for climatology completion activity for Maryland

LUNCH, Cardiff, Maryland
(12:30PM)

 

Drive to Slate Ridge Quarry, just outside Cardiff, Maryland
(2PM)

Geologic Maps of Harford County, Maryland will be distributed, introduced and discussed.

As a group, a hike up to and around the Slate Ridge Quarry to observe both the history and the geology of the area.

Smaller groups will be asked to complete the geologic map activity provided in the morning with daily handouts.

Elevation measurements and observations will be taken for climatology completion activity for Maryland

Obtaininga sample of slate from the remaining slag piles, smaller groups will analyze the mineral composition of the Slate Ridge Quarry slate, relating their findings to the information provided in their notebooks of the chemical make-up.

Through the completion of these activities, groups will gain a stronger understanding of the origin and  formation of the Peach Bottom Slate.