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Rock and Minerals Lesson Plans
- Classifying Rocks- Students will classify rocks by properties.
- Coal: More Than Meets the Eye!- Energy resources are unevenly distributed. Students will participate in a hands-on simulation to help them understand that coal resources are deposited unevenly between the earth's surface and under the ground.
- Igneous Rocks/Volcanoes- Students will differentiate between the two types of igneous rock and designate the area the rock comes from.
- Making Fossils- Students will better understand how fossils are created by making their own.
- Making Sandstone- Students will make sandstone.
- Making Sedimentary Rocks- Students should understand that sedimentary rocks like coal are formed by the cementing together of smaller pieces of rocks. Or, like coal, from the accumulation of plant material.
- Metamorphic Rocks - Use oral language to discuss how the variation of heat and pressure form various metamorphic rocks.
- Metamorphic Rock Activities- Students will understand that metamorphic rocks are sedimentary igneous, or other metamorphic rocks that have been changed by heat and pressure.
- Metamorphic Rock: Melting Rocks- Students will observe and gain a better understanding of the metamorphosing power of heat.
- Metamorphic Sandwiches: "Bread Rock"- To graphically show how metamorphic rock is formed by pressure and heat.
- Peanut Brittle Volcano- Students will see simulated lava flow down a simulated volcano. Students will learn that lava cools fastest on the surface.
- RAPTOR ROCKS- Paleontologists rarely find complete skeletons. They, like you, need to use their knowledge of other animals, hints about the environment, and their imaginations to reconstruct the animal.
- Rock and Mineral Attributes - The learner will demonstrate knowledge of grouping rocks by sorting them according to their attributes.
- Rock Collecting- Students will practice classifying rocks in the categories sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic.
- Rock Critters/Pet Rock- Children love to create rock critters. Have the children collect some rocks (coal) of different shapes and sizes. After you have a mountain of these rocks you can start.
- Rock Goodies- The students will learn the difference between sedimentary and metamorphic.
- Rock Cycle - Students will gain an understanding of how a rock can move through the different stages of the rock cycle.
- Rock cycle and Biomes - Students investigates rock cycles (erosion, soil types) as variable making biomes unique.
- Sedimentary Rock Activities- Students will understand that most sedimentary rocks such as coal are formed under the water and in swamps, lakes, seas, and oceans.
- Types of Rocks - TLW describe the relationship between rocks and minerals.
- What is a Mineral?- Mineral identification lab.
