Utah Education Network
Uen: Classifying Rocks and Minerals
Fourth graders identify rock types by observing key characteristics.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Rocks, Rocks Everywhere
Second graders will sort rocks based upon color, hardness, texture, layering, and particle size.,
Utah Education Network
Uen: All Sorts of Rocks
Second graders will sort rocks according to hardness, texture, layering, and particle size.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Investigating Different Rock Types
In this investigation, students explore the characteristics of various types of rocks.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Rocks and Minerals
Students will research a rock or mineral to find out some of its properties and uses. Each student will then complete a slide presentation to present findings.
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...
Minerals Ed
Minerals Ed: Introducing the Rock Cycle by Creating a 3 D Model [Pdf]
In this lesson plan geared toward primary students, they will learn about the three different kinds of rocks, how they are formed and how to recognize the unique characteristics by building a 3D model.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Virtual Rock Lab
In this lesson plan students are asked to identify rocks based on their properties.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Rocks
In this classroom guided inquiry lesson, students will become geologists. They will investigate rocks and the properties we can use to describe them. Students will observe, record, and reflect on their findings. They will record their...
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Nagt: Rock and Mineral Laboratory Exercises in Large Auditorium Classes
This set of four exercises requires each student to be provided with a rock and mineral kit, described in the downloadable activity description. They perform a detailed series of tests on the samples to discover their properties.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Nhmu: Rock and Mineral Uses
Learn about the various uses of rocks and minerals.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:3 Investigation 1 Minerals vs. Rocks
Activity helps with understanding the basic properties of rocks and minerals.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Rock Discovery
Identify rocks by examining rock characteristics and processes.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Rock Hounds
Second graders will select a rock, study it, and describe its attributes.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Mineral Replacement in Fossil Formation
Activity demonstrates two ways fossils are formed.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Density of Earth Materials
Students compare the densities of six different rocks/minerals collected from different environments, and then predict which rocks have the highest and lowest densities. Then they construct and test their hypothesis by calculating the...
Other
Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Mountain Building
A suite of lessons focusing on all aspects of how mountains are formed. Inquiry-based exploration of mountain building includes the rock cycle, mountain formation, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, rocks, minerals, and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Crumbling Rocks: Observing and Describing Rocks
Introduce geological terminology used in describing rocks to young students by having them observe and describe something they are familiar with to help them observe and describe the physical characteristics of something unfamiliar like...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Rock Investigation
In this activity students will observe and investigate rocks in order to classify them in terms of color, shape, texture and size.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Measurement of Compass Orientations of Rock Fractures
In this field activity, students measure rock fractures with a geologic compass and formulate a hypothesis to explain the origin of the fractures.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Rocks & Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
This lesson plan is designed to allow young children to investigate rocks using the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Earth Rocks!
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the basic elements of our Earth's crust: rocks, soils and minerals. They learn how we categorize rocks, soils and minerals and how they are literally the foundation for our...
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