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American Museum of Natural History

Grow Rock Candy

For Students 6th - 12th
The best way to study crystals is to make your own! A hands-on lesson shows learners how to make their own rock candy from household materials. While they watch the crystals grow, they discover their structure and can even eat their...
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Teach Engineering

Rock Candy Your Body

For Students 9th - 12th
Candy rocks! A sweet lesson offers a different take on the rock candy experiment. Groups use a supersaturated sugar solution to create rock candy. Pupils then add other ingredients to the solution to test their effect on the...
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Curated OER

Rock Candy

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe and demonstrate the physical change of dissolving sugar in water and evaporating the water to examine the physical change that has occurred. They discuss physical changes and solutions, and make rock candy,...
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Virginia Department of Education

Three Types of Rocks

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Rock out with the second installment of a five-part series on earth materials and processes. Your budding geologists make observations of given rock samples and posit classification systems for rocks. They then learn about the accepted...
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Virginia Department of Education

Metamorphic Rocks

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Rocks can bend? Pupils investigate how heat and pressure produce metamorphic rocks by modeling them using clay, and then categorize samples based on observable characteristics. The lesson ends with a metamorphic rock identification...
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Science-Class.net

Rock Candy Crystals

For Teachers 5th
Candy is one of my favorite words, and it's an even better word when it relates to science. Yes, candy science can happen when you grow rock candy crystals with your class. The entire process for growing these edible wonders of nature is...
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Curated OER

Rock Candy Crystals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discover how rocks are created.  In this rock formation lesson, students investigate saturation, evaporation, and phase changes in geology.  Learners create rock candy from skewers, string, boiling water and sugar.
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Chymist

Determination of the Volume of CO2 in Pop Rocks

For Students 9th - 12th
Where does the pop in pop rocks come from? An engaging activity asks scholars to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in a package of Pop Rocks candy. Learners dissolve the candy in water and use the solubility of CO2 to determine its mass.
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Curated OER

Growing Rock Candy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe the growth of rock candy. In this crystal growth lesson, students make rock candy and measure the crystal growth over five days.
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Curated OER

Pet Rocks

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students complete a variety of activities related to the physical characteristics of minerals. They classify and group candy, classify rocks and complete a Pet River Rock worksheet. Students try to guess which rock goes with each...
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Curated OER

Rock On!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make models of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks out of different types of candy and cookies.
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Curated OER

Data Analysis and Probability: Graphing Candy with Excel

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Collect and graph data using Microsoft Excel with your math class. They will make predictions about the number of each colored candy in a bag of M&M's, then sort, classify, count, and record the actual data before using Excel to...
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Curated OER

Identifying 2-D and 3-D Shapes in Crystals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars view a video on making rock candy and identify the shapes they see while watching. In this 2 and 3 dimensional shape lesson plan, students recognize shapes and complete worksheets to identify them. Young scholars build a...
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Curated OER

Edible Rocks

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create meteorite models using candy bars. In this earth science lesson, students describe the physical features of a meteorite. They sketch it and write a short description about it.
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Curated OER

If You Bit A Rock

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students describe the physical characteristics of a familiar model and apply it to an unfamiliar one.  In this investigative lesson students become familiar with rock characteristics by participating in a candy bar activity. 
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Curated OER

Edible Rocks, Munchy Meteorites

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students observe candy samples and attempt to match them to their descriptions. In this meteorite lesson plan, students are introduced to meteorite terminology with candy samples. They describe the candies in their own words and work...
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Curated OER

The Story of the Candy Cane

For Students K - 2nd
In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students read about the origin of the candy maker's candy cane and color the candy canes. Students retell the story and color 1 candy cane.
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Curated OER

Pop Rock Chemistry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this pop rock chemistry worksheet, students suck on pop rocks, they mix open pop rocks with water and they observe them on a paper towel with water. Students write down as many observations as they can and they write down as many...
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Curated OER

Changing Crust

For Students 7th - 9th
For this changing crust worksheet, learners use candy bars, licorice sticks and bubble gum to simulate the 3 types of forces that change the Earth's crust. These include compressional forces, tensional forces and transversal forces. The...
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Curated OER

Candy Quakes

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use candy to show the effects of deformation forces on the earth's crust.  In this rock and fossil formation instructional activity students construct models and simulations to describe and explain natural phenomena.
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Curated OER

Classification Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students simulate classifying rocks using different colored skittles. In this earth science activity, students create a Venn diagram according to their compiled information. They share this diagram in the class.
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Curated OER

Candy Quakes

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, using a candy bar, gum, and Twizzlers, demonstrate the effects of deformational forces on the earth's crust. They examine the processes of rock and fossil formation.
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Activity
Curated OER

Treasure Rocks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students mix ingredients together until it forms a soft dough. In this art lesson, students flatten the dough out and put small trinkets, wrapped candy or anything else they would want to hide in the rock. Students form dough up and into...
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Curated OER

Growing Crystals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the different types, visual appearance and creation of crystals. They grow an edible crystal - rock candy.

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