Weekly Blog (9/23/18) Rock Cycle and Rock music

http://www.mineralogy4kids.org/?q=rock-cycle

Summary 

The rock cycle is the cycle that rocks go through to become Sedimentary rocks, Metamorphic rocks, Igneous rocks, and everything in between. We didn't really learn anything different this week so I'm to talk about a new angle on what we learned last week. I'm going to talk about how the rock cycle (starting with magma) lines up with the evolution of rock music. First off, in the 60s the Beatles invented this new form of music that people were curious about and kickstarter this new genre of music and culture. This is when the magma hardens and first becomes a new, solid rock.  Next in the late 60s early 70s new bands started noticing what was happening and popping up everywhere. In 1970 the Beatles broke up and some of them made their own music. This is weathering and erosion because the rocks break apart and mix with other rocks, and coming from other places other than that one mountain/volcano. In the mid 70s everything changed. The music started evolving into more disco-ish music. This is like when it turns into sedimentary rock and becomes solid again but is very different than how it was before. In the 80s people started to make the rock music... well... a little harder and louder. The same thing happens with rocks when they go under heat and pressure and become a harder, different rock. The same thing happened even more so in the 90s. In the 2000s things started changing again and getting sad and just overall different. This is when the genre "modern rock" started to emerge in bands like Fall Out Boy. 

This when it changed into magma and the term rock became for liquid and not exact. Finally, some modern music exploded out of a volcano and uses samples of old music and a lot of songs from the 60s 70s and 80s are popular again. Other rock crystallized underground and continues to evolve like the Imagine Dragons album "evolve".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrAV5EVI4tU

S&EP

 I constructed physical, mental or conceptual models to represent and understand phenomena when I made a small comic of a rock going through the rock cycle. To think of the cycle our rock goes through, we had an activity where we went to different tables that were labeled different places like "earth's interior" or "ocean" and we would roll a die to figure out where we were going next. This really helped us understand that not all rocks follow this same, structured cycle that most diagrams use. Sometimes rocks can become little dust particles in streams, the ocean, or even the air. I did not think about the fact that air is part of the rock cycle until I did this activity. It was also pretty fun.

XCC

          I think that this is patterns because everything follows a certain cycle or pattern. From rocks to rock music. I really have no idea if this is coincidence or not. Some things have much larger scale cycles, like the universe expanding and contracting. And other things are much small like an atom turning. All I know is that there are cycles everywhere whether we notice or not.