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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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Natural Resources Canada: Annual Statistics of Mineral Production
This chart shows the mineral production of Canada by province and territory.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Rocks, Rocks, Rocks
Students test rocks to identify their physical properties (such as luster, hardness, color, etc.) and classify them as igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary. They complete a worksheet table to record all of the rock properties, and then...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Rock Discovery
Identify rocks by examining rock characteristics and processes.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Rock Cycle
Through five lessons, students are introduced to all facets of the rock cycle. Topics include rock and mineral types, material stresses and weathering, geologic time and fossil formation, the Earth's crust and tectonic plates, and soil...
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Permanent: Lunar Materials: Other Minerals
This site provides information on minerals found on the moon. (PERMANENT stands for Projects to Employ Resources of the Moon and Asteroids Near Earth in the Near Term.)
Utah Education Network
Uen: Rock Hounds
Second graders will select a rock, study it, and describe its attributes.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Grow Rock Candy
Students can carry out an investigation using sugar and water to determine whether heating or cooling a substance may cause changes that can be observed. This activity reinforces the ideas that the properties of materials can change when...
Amethyst Galleries
Amethyst Galleries: The Mineral Quartz
This resource provides a description of the mineral quartz, including physical characteristics and color images.
University of Oregon
Geo Man's Mineral and Rock Charts
This site contains several charts that can be used for identifying rocks and minerals based on traits such as hardness, luster and color.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Mineral Replacement in Fossil Formation
Activity demonstrates two ways fossils are formed.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Mineral Matters: Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently asked rock and mineral questions are answered and illustrated.
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Minerals
Australian Museum Online has a collection of rocks and minerals. Read about a rock from Cape Horn, the Jenolan Cave minerals and the "Barratta Meteorite."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Igneous Rock Classification
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Presents the classifications of igneous rocks based on silica content.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Minerals: Formation and Groups Study Guide
Understand the main ideas behind mineral formation with this study guide.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Igneous Rock Classification
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to classify igneous rocks.
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The Geological Society: Rock Properties [Pdf]
In this activity, students investigate the properties of six different types of rocks, and answer related questions, e.g., ranking them in terms of durability, inferring possible uses of three rock types, etc.
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...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Landforms, Rocks & Minerals: Fossils
Watch a slideshow featuring the makeup and value of fossils and take a quiz on the facts.
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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...
EL Education
El Education: Rock and Mineral Machine Poster
Students complete field observations and work with local geologists to collect rock and complete a lab on rock and mineral testing and identification. Students then invent a fictional machine to identify rocks, and finally they create a...
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