Rocks and Minerals

Rocks & Minerals: 

ROCKS: 

Children love to explore and collect rocks when they find them. Rocks are all so unique and therefore children will spend a lot of time comparing the rocks that they find. 

Here are two videos that will help explain rocks to children: 

MINERALS: 

ACTIVITIES: 
*Rock or Mineral Classroom Book 

Ask the children to brainstorm some questions that they have about rocks and minerals and have some additional questions that they can find the answer to. 

With assistance, children will research a rock or mineral and make a book page about it. All of the pages will be put together to make a book about rocks or minerals 

Examples: 

Books: 

Landform Dinosaurs

Landform Dinosaurs Lesson: 

This lesson is a great way for children to learn about different landforms in an interesting way. 

To begin the lesson, each child will learn about a different landform. Once they have researched the landform, they will draw it on a piece of paper. 

This video could be useful to help children learn about landforms

This is my drawing of a cape:

*It may also be helpful for the children to add some words that explain the landform on the drawing*

Once all of the children have drawn their landform, they can be displayed in a place so all of the students can see them. 

Finally, challenge the children to draw a dinosaur using as many landforms as they can. They can do this individually or in small groups on a large paper (like the example below). 

The children can share their dinosaurs and explain what landforms they included. 

Another Example: 

Books About Landforms: 




Books About Dinosaurs: 


Related Activities: 
*Classroom Landform Book
*Making Landforms Sensory Bins 
*Clay/Play Dough Landforms or Dinosaurs