Please read and discuss "Let's
Get Started" page with your students.
Students will be able to identify
the rock or mineral or characteristics of each.
They will do Activity
1 and Activity 2 by themselves or in small
groups. These are self-checking activities.
Science Standards:
PRe-Publication
Version-Science Content Standards
Earth Sciences
3. Earth is made
of materials that have distinct properties and provide
resources for
human activities. As the basis for understanding this
concept, students
know:
a. how to compare the physical properties of different kinds of
rocks and that rock is composed of different combinations of
minerals.
b. smaller rocks come from the breakage and weathering of
larger rocks.
c. soil is made partly from weathered rock and partly from
organic materials, and that soils differ in their color, texture,
capacity to retain water, and ability to support the growth of
many kinds of plants.
d. fossils provide evidence about the plants and animals that
lived long ago, and scientists learn about the past history of
Earth by studying fossils.
e. rock, water, plants and soil provide many resources
including food, fuel, and building materials that humans use.
Teacher Links:
rocks&minerals
teacher
links
Igneous,
Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks
Def/Rock/MinClassifying
Rocks
Rocks
and Minerals
Rocks,
Minerals and Fossils: Naturespace Science Place
Rocks
and Minerals!
Sedimentary
Rocks
The
Franklin Institute Science Museum
Books:
Let's Go Rock Collecting
Roma
Gans, Holly Keller
Magic School Bus: Inside the
Earth
Joanna
Cole, Bruce Degen
3D Rocks and Minerals (Eyewitness)
Cally Oldershaw
Find Out About Rocks
Tony
Jennings, Terry Jennings
Rocks and Minerals Coloring
Book
T.D.
Burns
Discover Rocks and Minerals:
Activity Book
Laura
C. Beattie, Pam Folsom
DK Pockets: Rocks and Minerals
Sue
Fuller
Everybody Needs a Rock
Byrd
Baylor, Pete Parnall
A First Look at Rocks
Millicent
E. Selsam, Joyce Hunt
The Big Rock
Bruce Hiscock