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:
  1. Tell what each word means:

    2. Word

    Meaning

    Igneous

    		 

    Metamorphic

    		 

    Soil

    		 
  2. Tell the difference between a rock and a mineral.
    3.  
  3. Give four examples of minerals.
    4.  
  4. Why is soil important to life on earth?
    5.  
  5. 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:

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.