Children's Museum
Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Geo Mysteries
This interactive site will engage students' curiosity as they learn about the various types of rocks and how they are formed. Also includes a fantastic timeline, showing the formation of rocks throughout history.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Ck 12: Plix: Intrusive and Extrusive Igneous Rock
[Free Registration/Login Required] An interactive animation demonstrating how the mineral crystal in an igneous rock formed due to the cooling magma. Site also includes a short quiz on the formation of the crystal.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigation of the Minnehaha Falls Area
A lesson plan where learners observe rock types and classify the rocks in the Minnehaha falls area. Students will also make predictions about the cause of the shape of the landscape. Learners will record their findings in a journal....
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: In What Types of Rocks Do Fossils Form?
Learn about the types of rocks where fossils can form.
Children's Museum
Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Floating Rock Geo Mysteries
Did you know that there are some rocks that actually float? Follow this interactive investigation to find out which ones and why.
Children's Museum
Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Floating Rock Geo Mysteries
A good resource if you want a quick overview of the formation process for igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock.
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky: Rocks and Minerals: Sedimentary Rocks
An excellent resource for learning about sedimentary rocks and how they form. The different types of sedimentary rocks and deposits found in Kentucky are listed, with links to dedicated pages for each. Covers clay, shale, sandstone,...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Rocky Movement [Pdf]
In this lesson, 3rd graders will investigate the three types of rocks and personify the formation of each type with movement.
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Other
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...
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Metamorphic Rocks
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers metamorphic rocks, which form from previous rocks exposed to heat and/or pressure.
Other
Metamorphic Rocks [Ppt]
Explains the different ways that metamorphic rocks can form. Looks at high temperature, high pressure, and chemically active fluids. Discusses structures created in metamorphic rocks by different forces and the classifications based on...
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Science Museum: Rock Hounds With Rocky
Rocky the Rock Hound uses simple animations to show the formation of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Includes teacher connections to lessons, literature, and activities along with online quizzes and puzzles on rocks and rock...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating the Minnesota River's Glacial History Near Henderson, Mn.
While visiting three separate sites in or near the Minnesota River valley, students will question the deposition environment of rock types found and the creation of the valley itself. Students will discover find types of rock found far...
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Dirt on Soil
After completing this activity, students will understand the source and the process for the formation of soil, the different types of soil, and the components of soil.
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Kentucky Coal Education: Making Sedimentary Rocks [Pdf]
In this activity, students learn how sedimentary rocks form by making three different types.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: How Sedimentary Rock Is Formed
The Franklin Institute describes the way sedimentary rock is formed, with links to descriptions of several types of sedimentary rocks.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Rocks, Rock Cycle, and Formation
Kids learn about the science of rocks and the rock cycle. How different types such as igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic form from minerals with the help of nature.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Soil Formation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How soil is formed.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Types of Landforms
Describes different landform types and their features. includes many good quality photographs.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Sedimentary Rock Formation Explained
Explains what sedimentary rocks are, the three main types, and how they are formed.
Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington: Sedimentary Structures
This resource explains the depositional processes that occur in sedimentary rock formation to produce stratification, cross-bedding, graded bedding, rippled effects, and solidified mud cracks. Includes photographs of each type.
Other
Western Oregon University: Earth System Science: Geologic Time [Pdf]
An 81-page slideshow that looks at the principles of geology with respect to relative dating, at different concepts describing geological processes, at absolute age and radiometric dating, at the eons and eras in the geologic time scale,...
Other
Caterpillar: Ground Rules: Mining Right for a Sustainable Future [Pdf]
This set of lesson plans was developed to accompany Ground Rules: Mining Right for a Sustainable Future, a documentary film created by Caterpillar and Science North. They introduce students to the various phases involved in mining,...