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Showing posts with label rock and minerals. Show all posts
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Rock Cycle Lesson Plan for Kids

Monday, November 23, 2020

We worked on our rocks unit study a few weeks ago and I recorded some of our learning activities in this post. This subject area is usually for upper elementary but I created a curriculum that suits best for younger kids. If you have students/kids who show interest in rocks and rock cycle, below is a lesson plan on how to conduct a child-friendly and hands-on rock unit study. 

Rock Cycle Lesson Plan for Kids
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Rocks and Minerals Learning Activities for Kids (with Free Cards)

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

The summer break gave us an opportunity to explore sciences that Mavi loved to learn but couldn’t because of school.  After our trip to the Wicklow Mountains last month, he’s been asking  if we could learn about rocks and minerals.  He plays Minecraft so he wanted to understand the building blocks he’s using.  I started making the materials last month and it was just a few weeks ago that I finished the entire set and we were able to use it together with our rock collections!

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Study of Rocks and Minerals for Kids (with FREE Cards)

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

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Oh here we are again, my son’s favourite topic: rocks! Last year we worked on identifying the types of rocks: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.  This year, I added minerals to our studies, to advance our learning about the Rock Cycle.
This years’ objectives for  Rock Cycle study:
  1. Review the classification of rocks
  2. Identify the characteristics of rocks
  3. Identify the characteristics of minerals
  4. Difference between rocks and minerals
  5. Products of rocks and minerals
Materials used:
  • Igneous rock collection
  • Metamorphic rock collection
  • Sedimentary rock collection 
  • Minerals collection.    
  • Digital microscope (optional) Was used to examine and take magnified digital pictures of the surface of rocks and minerals. This device can become handy in taking magnified digital pictures of tiny insects, objects, or any creatures.
  • Rock and Fossil Hunter Book  A really good book that provides a table of rocks and minerals, with lots of experiments and activities.
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This is how we worked on each rock.  I created learning cards for each collection, the links are at the end of this post.
DSC_0833  Comparing rocks and mineralsDSC_0644
Comparing Pyrite (fools’ gold and real gold)DSC_0646
Colours of minerals.  Trying to draw and identify the colours of each mineral.
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Rocks vs Minerals.  Combined a few igneous, metamorphic and minerals then have Mavi sort them according to:  minerals, rocks and “not sure”.  Mavi had so much fun here!DSC_0684 (2)
DSC_0689 (2)  Looking closely.  We used our digital microscope (husband provided this) to have a closer look at our rocks and to check for some crystal formations :)
Metamorphic
Metamorphic Igneous
Igneous - Copy Minerals
Minerals - Copy
Get your FREE printable files from the links below:
  • Igneous Rocks
  • Metamorphic Rocks
You can also purchase an entire pack of rock materials (I suggest this!).  If you have a budget, it's better to get them all at once so you can pull out a prolific rock study.  Any of these two would be perfect!
  • Rock and Fossil Collection
  • Earth Science Collection
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