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- 1st - 2nd
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Students sort rocks based on their size and color. They predict how different rocks act in a mixture when it is shaken. They also brainstorm different ways to sort rocks other than color and size. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students examine various rocks and brainstorm ways to sort them. They classify the different types of rocks, and predict how a mixture of rocks/objects separate. They shake the mixture of rocks and observe and record the results. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students classify rocks into eight attributes - color, shape, weight, sheen, hardness, layers, texture, and pattern, and enter and sort information in database. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students examine how rocks are formed, used, and how to collect them. They listen to and discuss the book, Let's Go Rock Collecting, sort rock samples, and collect rocks from home. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students work with their science partners to observe and sort rocks according to geologic properties. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 3rd
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Students describe and sort rocks according to their physical properties. They listen to a story and discuss what they know about rocks, then work with a partner to discuss how their sample rocks differ from each other. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students devise a rock word web and sort rocks by applying the categories they discuss. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students work together to examine different types of rocks. They sort rocks according to their characteristics and properties. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students carefully observe several different rocks using a hand lens and then describe the characteristics of each rock. They use these characteristics to sort these rocks into a binary classification system of their own choice. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine different types of rocks and classify rocks by their different characteristics. In small groups they sort their rocks into two categories, then create three categories to sort by on a sorting worksheet. Next, they select three rocks and compare and contrast them and discuss how a rock key works. Full Review »
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