This classifying rocks power point with a 30 slide power point with animations that your students will love! This lesson addresses the question “What processes explain how rocks are formed and categorized?” Students can take notes in their science journal while they listen to you teach a direct instruction lesson that goes along with 30 beautiful slides in the animated power point included in this product. Your students will learn so much from the carefully thought out animations included in this presentation. You won’t see animations like this anywhere else showing how igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks form. It will be very engaging for your students with meaningful animations that will truly help your students understand the difference between each rock type and the processes that must take place to form them.

This direct instruction presentation visual aide will take about 45 minutes to teach, and your students are guaranteed to understand how scientists classify the three main types of rocks into the categories of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. They will also learn how each of these rock types form through natural processes of the Earth. It is completely no prep on your part, because all of the animations are pre timed and there is no copying or lesson plan preparation whatsoever for you to do! You can even read straight from the presentation if you need to use this presentation today!

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Your students will really enjoy carefully timed animations built in to this colorful power point with custom clipart . I know you and your students will enjoy this presentation, and truly understand this concept on a higher level due to the visuals shown in this product, I guarantee it!

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