Rock Types Lesson and Activity

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Grade Levels
2nd - 4th
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Description

Easily teach the rock types with an interactive PowerPoint while students take notes in a mini book. Students learn how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks are formed as they complete a rock "cookbook."

Includes:

*lesson plan

*17-slide Power Point presentation

*mini "Rock Cook Book" for students to fill in

*3 rock-type posters to display

*alignment to NGSS

What Others Are Saying:

"Such a cute and logical way to teach the rock types! Connecting it to something they know, like cooking, helps them understand!"

-Miss Fela

"Rocks & Minerals can be boring but the kids loved the information when I presented it in this way! "

-Maria C.

"My class LOVED this. The power point was useful and made it easy to understand."

-Jessica P.

This lesson is included in the full Rock Unit.

**For personal and single classroom use only.**

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Total Pages
24 pages
Answer Key
Does not apply
Teaching Duration
45 minutes
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
NGSS4-ESS1-1
Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time. Examples of evidence from patterns could include rock layers with marine shell fossils above rock layers with plant fossils and no shells, indicating a change from land to water over time; and, a canyon with different rock layers in the walls and a river in the bottom, indicating that over time a river cut through the rock. Assessment does not include specific knowledge of the mechanism of rock formation or memorization of specific rock formations and layers. Assessment is limited to relative time.
NGSS2-ESS1-1
Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly. Examples of events and timescales could include volcanic explosions and earthquakes, which happen quickly and erosion of rocks, which occurs slowly. Assessment does not include quantitative measurements of timescales.
NGSS2-PS1-1
Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. Observations could include color, texture, hardness, and flexibility. Patterns could include the similar properties that different materials share.

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