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Academic Standards
Reading Objective:
Children will learn about the formation of rocks, and their characteristics and uses.
Reading Level:
Lexile: 530L; GRL: L
Next Generation Science Standards:
2-ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems
Vocabulary:
minerals, igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
Use these questions to check students’ understanding and stimulate discussion:
1. What are rocks mostly made of? (minerals)
2. What do you get when melted rock shoots out of a volcano and cools? (igneous rocks)
3. What is sand mostly made of? (tiny pieces of rocks and minerals)
4. What kind of rock would you like to find? Why? (Answers will vary.)
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Materials: rocks, crayons or markers, pencils, copies of the skill sheet
Overview: Children will classify and make observations about rocks they have gathered, then record observations on a skill sheet.
Directions: