Earth's layers cake? Please read this!!!!!!!!!!?!
Answers: Our teacher gave us a project that we have to present to the class. We could do a song,poem,jeopardy game using the earth's facts etc. I wanted to do something edible like a cake or a cookie. You have to make the edible item like the earth's layers. for example: you would do something like cake for the crust. maybe Jello for the mantle since the mantle can move around and has molten lava. Any suggestions or recipes would be very helpful.
Grahm cracker, peanut brittle, frosting, lol
Oh, and thick batter, probably brownie, for the part just bove the mantle.
chewy..and..moist...and...goooood..
oh. sorry ^u^
good luck!
Reft~
PS if you don't know, peanut brittle is reeeally hard candy slabs. Look it up for recipies. =)
try a jelly layer for the water blueberry jelly with making a basic white cake and use food coloring
LAYER CAKE GEOLOGY
John R. Wagner
Department of Earth Sciences
Clemson University
Clemson, S.C. 29634-1908
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Level: Grades 4 - 6 Can be modified for use with Grades 2 - 3.
Estimated Time Required: 50 - 60 minutes
Anticipated Learning Outcomes
Students will understand the mechanisms by which folds and faults occur within the earth's crust.
Students will recognize the difference in behavior between brittle and ductile rocks.
Students will predict the structure likely to result from application of various forces to layered rocks.
Students will interpret "core samples" to determine rock structures beneath the land surface.
Students will learn the meaning of the following geologic terms: fold, fault, brittle, ductile, fracture, and core samples.
Background
No prior knowledge of geology is required. However, the teacher should introduce the two basic concepts of layered rock: superposition (oldest layer at bottom, youngest at top) and original horizontality (sediments deposited in horizontal layers until some force changes their tilt or orientation).
Materials
Multiple-layer cake prepared according to the following instructions:
Use moist pound cake (or other dense, coherent cake) mix. (One mix is sufficient for whole class activity if layers are made thin enough.)
Bake four to six thin cakes, (each between 0.5 and 2.0 cm thick), each a different color (mix in food coloring before baking). Use square or rectangular pans.
Stack the cakes in any order. Apply icing (of any kind) between the layers but not on the top or sides of the cake.
Knife for cutting cake
Three transparent plastic tubes (diameter between 1 and 2 centimeters) at least as long as the cake is high. Clear drinking straws could be used, but tubes of wider diameter produce better results.
Procedures
Display the cake in a central location so all students have a clear view. Explain to the class that the cake represents a portion of the earth's crust with the top of the cake representing the surface of the earth. Each different color layer (including icing layers) represents a separate layer of sedimentary rock within the earth's crust. Ask the following questions and have student volunteers answer them by using the cake:
What does the cake look like from the side?
Where on the earth would you expect to see rock layers having this orientation?
Which "geologic" layers are the oldest? Have any of the geologic layers been tilted?
Predict what the inside of the cake looks like away from the edges (sides)? On what did you base your prediction?
How might you test your prediction? What tools or "equipment" would you need?
Is your test procedure practical for use on the real earth? What real tools or equipment would you need?
Try out your test procedure on the cake. Were the results what you expected?
How many times would you have to repeat your test procedure to be sure your results applied to the entire cake?
If the cake is large enough (or if multiple cakes are available), cut two slices of cake for each group of up to four students. Each slice should be no more than 5 cm wide and should be as long as possible. Each group of students should follow the instructions listed below, answer the questions, and record their results on a separate piece of paper. [Or the teacher may do this as a demonstration.]
Place a slice of cake on a sheet of paper on a desk or table. How many ways can you think of to change either the shape of your cake slice or the orientation of individual layers within? Do not try out any of these ideas yet, but write them all down to share with the class. Predict the visible changes which would be seen in the cake layers because of each of these ideas. Which ones are possible on the real earth? What forces might cause such shape changes in the real earth? Is there a difference in behavior of the cake layers versus the icing layers? Why or why not?
Materials:
4 oz. pkg. raspberry gelatin dessert
4 oz. pkg. instant vanilla pudding
8 oz. pkg. black cherry gelatin dessert
4 cups boiling water (can be boiled and kept hot in thermos)
4 cups cold water
3 mixing bowls
12 graham crackers
1/2 cup melted margarine
1/4 cup granulated sugar
10" diameter clear glass bowl
(Small paper cups and spoons for after discussion)
Procedure:
Make the gelatin desserts in separate bowls and according to the directions on the side of the box. Put in refrigerator to set.
Have the children crush the graham crackers into fine crumbs. This can be done by putting the crackers in a zip-lock bag and having the children pound the bag until the crackers are in very fine crumbs.
Mix the graham cracker crumbs with the melted margarine and granulated sugar. Press the mixture on the bottom and along the sides of the glass bowl to form a crust. Set aside.
After two hours the gelatin will set. Spoon the black cherry into the graham cracker crust. Form it so that there is about a five inch pocket in the middle.
Next, spoon in the lemon gelatin, leaving a two inch hole. Into this center, spoon the raspberry gelatin.
Dirt cake
2 20 ounce packages of Oreo Cookies
1/2 stick butter
8 ounces cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
3 1/2 cup milk
2 sm French Vanilla pudding boxes
12 ounces Cool Whip
Cream butter, cream cheese and powdered sugar together. Mix pudding with milk, add in whipped topping. Mix into creamed mixture. In a bag, crush Oreo's leaving cream inside. Fill clear plastic cups with pudding and top with crushed Oreo's. Throw some gummy worms in for good measure.