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Student Task:
Rocks, Rock Hounds, and Rocky Explorations
Explore the websites to answer the questions in each section. Type your answer
in the boxes provided.
A. Base Camp (Beginning Level)
Rock Primer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/rocks/primer.shtml
Discover How Rocks Are Formed
http://sln.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/create/index.html
Rocks for Kids
http://www.rocksforkids.com/
1. Name the four sections of the earth. Describe each section.
Part of the
Earth
Description
2. List the three main types of rocks? Give three examples of each type.
Name of Rock
Examples
3. Tell how each type of rock is formed.
Name of Rock
How the rock was formed
4. How are the layers of sedimentary rock like a sandwich?
5. How is a rock like a chocolate chip cookie?
6. List some products made from rocks that you might find in a bathroom.
7. What are some tools that geologists and rock hounds use to gather rock samples
safely?
8. Go to the site: http://sln.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/create/index.html
Discover How Rocks Are Formed and do the following activities:
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Rock Hound Collection Safety Quiz
Become a Rock Expert
Rock Expert Quiz
Pebbling Puzzles
9. Tell what each word means:
Word
Igneous
Meaning
Metamorphic
Soil
10. Tell the difference between a rock and a mineral.
11. Give four examples of minerals.
12. Why is soil important to life on earth?
13. What are fossils? How are they formed?
14. Go to the site: http://www.rocksforkids.com/ Rocks for Kids. Share five
things that you learned.
15. What are the three main types of volcanoes? Explain a little about each type.
Type of Volcano
Description
B. Digging and Climbing (Intermediate Level)
The Rock Cycle
http://duke.usask.ca/~reeves/prog/geoe118/geoe118.011.html
Wonderful World of Minerals
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002744/adlm.html
Happy Birthstone
http://love-story.com/bs00.htm
Birthstone List
http://nandesign.com/birthstone.htm
Gem of a Story Archives
http://www.bsu.edu/teachers/academy/gems/archives.html
Geo Mysteries @ the Children’s Museum
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/geomysteries/index2.html
1. Tell what each word means:
Word
Meaning
Magma
Weathering
2. List 9 words that help you describe or tell one mineral from another.
3. On Mohs Scale of Hardness, find the softest and hardest rock.
Softest rock:
Hardest rock:
4. Check out the sites on gems and birthstones. Write down the month you were
born in and the birthstone for that month.
The month I was born in is:
My birthstone is:
5. List some of the gems that you checked out. What is your favourite?
Some names of gems are:
My favourite is:
6. Go to the site: http://www.childrensmuseum.org/geomysteries/index2.html
Geo Mysteries, and help Rex the Dino Detective solve mysteries about rocks,
fossils and minerals. Also find answers to the Frequently Asked Questions.
(You don’t need to write anything down for this question. Just have fun!)
C. Digging Deeper and Climbing Higher
Volcano World, Rocks and Minerals Slide Show
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Slideindex.html
Enchanted Rocks and Minerals
http://www.EnchantedRocks.com/Mineral-Spheres/Minerals-New-Index.html
Mineral Scavenger Hunt
http://educate.si.edu/resources/lessons/siyc/gems/chart.html
Wonderful World of Minerals
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002744/adlm.html
1. Check out the slide show on the Volcano World, Rocks and Minerals Slide
Show site.
2. Go to the Mineral Scavenger Hunt site and complete the chart. Print it off and
hand it in when it is finished.
3. Go to the Wonderful World of Minerals site and check out the following
activities:
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Build Your Own Volcano
Webelo Scout Geologist Requirement
Games
Other sites that interest you
D. Enrichment/Challenge Activity
1. Using Hyper Studio, create a slide show on rocks and minerals, using
information and pictures from any of the websites you have explored.
2. Using Hyper Studio, create a slide show on volcanoes, using information and
pictures from any of the websites you have explored.