Wednesday, April 29, 2015

6th Grade Science

Science ROCKS...Literally!

This unit, the 6th grade class is spending time exploring and learning about minerals and rocks.  Today was the introduction day to rocks, so what better way to do that than to let the students create all 3 types of rocks with crayons?! (Hint: There is no better way!)  

Students applied pressure to their crayon shavings (sediments) to create sedimentary rocks:


They then put their sedimentary rock over boiling water to heat it up, and then applied more pressure by stepping on it to create a metamorphic rock:

Finally, students completely melted their new metamorphic rock over the boiling water and let it cool completely to form an igneous rock:

They then put their sedimentary rock over boiling water to heat it up, and then applied more pressure by stepping on it to create a metamorphic rock:


Today, students only know these rocks as Rock #1, Rock #2, and Rock #3...tomorrow, everything will be hashed out and named on a life size rock cycle!

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