Showing posts with label geology/rocks and minerals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geology/rocks and minerals. Show all posts
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Choose Your Own Adventure: Rock Cycle

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Choose Your Own Adventure Style: Rock Cycle Wheel ( free download ) Students find images or draw pictures on their wheel. They fasten th...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Fossil Hunter

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sq4P3-p5g82nIEE0f821ZaAoxpfTNIOS/view?usp=sharing Students become paleontologists, searching for fossils...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Sand Art Math

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Integrate math, art, and science by creating sand art! Math Have kids figure out the fraction of each color they use in their san...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Spiky Crystals

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Grow crystals in your fridge with epsom salt and hot water! Chemistry crystals (featured above) - Instructables Cup of Quick Crystal Nee...
Saturday, May 11, 2013

Pasta Rock

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Kids take whole and broken pieces of pasta ( 1/2 cup)  and mix it with 2 tbsp of water in a cup. They dump out the water. Then, they ad...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Design a Rock

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This experiment is from National Geographic Kids' book Jump Into Science: Rocks and Minerals by Steve Tomecek! Kids create their ver...
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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Fossil Sandwich

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Investigate how fossils are formed by creating a fossil sandwich. Kids use bread to represent layers of sedimentary rock. They use books a...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Cookie Rocks and Mining

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2 activities, Science and Economics: 1. Cookie Rocks - This experiment is inspired by Kinderpond's "C is for Cookie."...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Play Doh Rock Cycle

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Demonstrate the rock cycle with play doh! Visit East Tennessee Wildflowers   (featured below)  for instructions (scroll down), as well as ot...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Geology Chef

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Cook up some SWEET rocks in the Geology Kitchen ! For more rock cooking classes click here ! Also, check out the SWEET Rock Lab by   ...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

Rocks and Weathering

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screenshot of BBC Rocks and Weathering BBC's Rocks and Weathering: cool, interactive, animated site, that I discovered over at one o...
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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Rock On: Geology Around Us

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Red Rock Canyon NCA Environmental Education Program   has an awesome rock scavenger hunt! I adapted their version to use in a school, p...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Hot Rocks

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ART - Jazz up your stones! First, go on a nature walk for flat rocks. Bake rocks at 225 F for 15 minutes on a foil lined sheet. Make s...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Cave Pillar Experiment

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While studying rocks and minerals and learning about weathering / deposition, build your very own stalactite ! Kids see the formation of  ...
Monday, February 6, 2012

SWEET Rock Lab!

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photo via to the square inch To the Square Inch came up with a geology lab for kids to construct candy models of rocks!   Rock Recip...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Rocks and Minerals Station

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photos via the crafty classroom The Crafty Classroom   had   kids "explore the differences   and similarities   between various roc...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Mechanical and Chemical Weathering

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Mechanical Weathering Experiment  via   Mini Me Geology materials: Plastic Wrap Clay Water 1. Moisten the clay with a littl...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Lego Weathering: Erosion / Deposition

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Beakers and Bumblebees   made up an awesome, active lego relay race that reinforces the weathering process! 1. First, 2 teams build a leg...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Soap Erosion

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via science matters Science Matters   placed  a bar of soap on a sponge and let it sit in the sink to demonstrate erosion. Click the l...

Crayon Rock Cycle

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Featured Above: Flying Fox Academy conducted a really cool experiment to show "how the same minerals can be changed into different ...