Meet some interesting rocks. Learners discover information about the three types of rocks and different rocks that are within each group. They read imaginary interviews with six rocks as each rock tells the story of their formation and a few other details about themselves. The interviews of the rocks makes for a nice remote learning resource.

Concepts

igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks, sedimentary rocks, rocks, meteorites, types of rocks

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Have individuals collect rocks from nearby areas and classify them
• Use the information from the rocks to organize the clues about the history of Earth in one location

Classroom Considerations

• It is helpful if the class has some idea of how old the Earth is

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

• Includes information for key terms
• Contains links to other sites about rocks

Cons

• None