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Serc: Investigating Rocks: Seeing Your School's Area Lesson PlanSerc: Investigating Rocks: Seeing Your School's Area Lesson Plan
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
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6th - 8th
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Serc: Investigating Rocks: Seeing Your School's Area

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In this earth science lab, middle schoolers will find, identify, and create a visual presentation of the rocks that are found around their school. They will determine the mass, volume, density, color, texture, and hypothesize what each rock is. Students will then make a visual poster board that will display their findings. They will provide a hypothesis about how each rock found its way to the school and if it is natural to the area or unnaturally brought there.

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Concepts

density, mass, volume, types of rocks

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metaphoric rock, investigating rocks: seeing your school's area, sedimentary rock

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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