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Caterpillar: Ground Rules: Mining Right for a Sustainable Future [Pdf]
This set of lesson plans was developed to accompany Ground Rules: Mining Right for a Sustainable Future, a documentary film created by Caterpillar and Science North. They introduce students to the various phases involved in mining,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Collecting and Identifying Rocks
Students investigate rocks in an outdoor field trip, and then place them into groups by characteristics. The different groups could be the size, shape, color, and texture of the rocks. After classifying, students are introduced to the...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 44: Compositional Techniques
Young music students rarely see or, better still, hear a connection between the different types of scales, modes, intervals and other compositional techniques such as meter, tonality, and form used in both traditional 'Art' music and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Igneous Rocks Model
Students use samples of four different types of igneous rocks to observe differences in texture, color, and grain size, and then make inferences about the relative cooling histories and silica content associated with each magma type.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Rocks, Rock Cycle, and Formation
Kids learn about the science of rocks and the rock cycle. How different types such as igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic form from minerals with the help of nature.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: How Do Different Types of Soil Form?
Find out about the two major factors that affect soil formation.
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Metamorphic Rocks [Ppt]
Explains the different ways that metamorphic rocks can form. Looks at high temperature, high pressure, and chemically active fluids. Discusses structures created in metamorphic rocks by different forces and the classifications based on...
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Kentucky Coal Education: Making Sedimentary Rocks [Pdf]
In this activity, students learn how sedimentary rocks form by making three different types.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating the Rate of Weathering on Various Rock Types.
In this Earth Science field investigation, students will make observations of the rock above and below the Minneopa State Park waterfalls. Students will then make observations of gravestones at Minneopa Cemetery. Through these...
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Prince George's Community College: Reading the Rock Record [Pdf]
This is an in-depth activity where students create a rock layer formation using different colors of playdough and investigate the types of folds and rock formations that might occur. They take core samples through anticlines and...
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Cal Poly Pomona: Igneous Rocks
If you need a technical summary of igneous rock classification, then this resource is worth checking out. It has several different diagrams to help you visualize the classification process.
Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington: Is It a Rock or Mineral? [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students will compare types of candy to learn about geological classification. Students will classify and sort different materials by their composition and physical properties.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Name That Tune
Students will learn that scientists use seismic technology (sound waves) to map patterns of rock formations below the surface of the earth and that different types of rocks affect sound waves.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Types of Landforms
Describes different landform types and their features. includes many good quality photographs.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Just Look All Around You
First graders will recognize the different types of soil and understand that through erosion from rocks is where we get soil.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Evolution: How to Become a Fossil
Learn about what a fossil is, the different types that scientists use for study, and processes that form them. [2:57]
Utah Education Network
Uen: Themepark: Cycles
This is a large collection of resources on cycles of nature and the Earth. There is a constant exchange of the elements between air, earth, water, plants, and animals. Most biological processes wind up back where they started. These...
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Dirt on Soil
After completing this lesson, learners will understand the source and the process for the formation of soil, the different types of soil, and the components of soil.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Guide to Mechanical Weathering and Its Major Types
Describes the different types of mechanical weathering and how each of them breaks down rocks.
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Bradshaw Foundation: African Rock Art
This page from the Bradshaw Foundation provides some information on African Rock Art. It also has links to pictures of this type of art in different countries throughout Africa.
Read Works
Read Works: Dig This!
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read different fossils, how fossils are made, and three different types of rock on Earth. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Exploring Sound Waves
This activity explores the behavior of sound waves. Learn how to test how sound travels through different types of rock.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: How the Earth Is Built
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the ways the earth is built. It studies different types of rock formation and earth forms. Charts, graphs, and linking pages make this flipchart interactive
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering for the 3 Little Pigs
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate the importance of rocks, soils and minerals in engineering and how using the right material for the right job is important. The students build three different sand castles and test them for...