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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