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Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Rocks and Minerals in Our Lives

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Young geologists discover the important role that rocks and minerals play in our everyday lives through this series of hands-on activities. Starting off with a lesson that defines the difference between plants, animals, and minerals,...
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Types of Rocks

For Students 6th - 8th
In this types of rocks worksheet, students answer questions about igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks and sedimentary rocks. They give examples of each type of rock and they indicate how they are formed.
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Sedimentary Rocks

For Students 7th - 8th
In this sedimentary rocks worksheet, students list the material that make up sediments and some ways that sedimentary rocks can form. Then they describe kinds of sedimentary rocks and give examples for each. Students also define each of...
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AP: Chapter 25: Phylogeny and Systematics

For Students 9th - 12th
As a review or note taking guide, this resource wraps up a unit on the tree of life. Biology bigwigs define phylogeny and answer questions about the subsequent classification of organisms. The worksheet takes a straightforward and...
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Famous Rock Groups

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students define igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary, and use rock identification books to identify igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Students then discuss which rocks early man would have found useful for tool creation.
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The Rock Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the concept of the rock cycle.  In this geology lesson, students identify, classify, and observe three different types of rocks.  Students then list and char the characteristics of their rocks. 
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Rock Cycle

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify various types of landforms of the United States. They discuss earth movements that produce geologic structures and landforms and define cycle as it relates to rocks and soil. They demonstrate the processes forming...
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Rockin' Rock Cycle

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students label a diagram of the rock cycle with correct labeling and writings in science log. They define 3 types of rocks: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic and label the stages of the rock cycle and explain the process.
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Sedimentary Rocks

For Students 9th - 12th
In this sedimentary rock worksheet, high schoolers define clastic and bioclastic. Students determine how dolostone is formed and the difference between breccia and conglomerate. This worksheet has 11 short answer questions.
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Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources: Mining in B.C.

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners explore energy by categorizing rocks. In this British Columbia geology lesson plan, students define many different vocabulary terms associated with mining such as sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. Learners utilize sample...
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How to Recycle a Rock

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the rock cycle and explore how rocks are made, changed, destroyed and recreated. They create representations of these processes with hands-on activities.
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Structure of the Earth

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explain the difference between igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. They identify the stages in the rock cycle. They discover the origin of rocks as well.
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Rocks

For Students 4th - 5th
In this earth science worksheet, students find the words that define rocks and the answers are accessed by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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What is a Karst?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the process that creates limestone.  In this limestone lesson plan students complete a worksheet and participate in a lab activity. 
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What is a Karst

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate landforms by holding a class experiment. In this topography lesson, students define the word "karst" and discover why sinkholes are created on the surface of the Earth by completing worksheets. Students create a...
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Global Change — Change and Cycles Where Land, Air and Water Meet

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars participate in an experiment to define a parts-per-billion solution. For this ecology lesson, students select a second substance to create a parts-per-billion solution and observe and record their results. Young scholars...
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Earth's Surfaces

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and define geology and earth surface vocaulary and their meanings to classify rocks and explore caves and their properties. Students find rocks and test them according to Moh's scale. They create a color coded earth...
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You are the Archaeologist

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Kids can practice their observation and evidence-based argument skills with a fun and engaging look at artifacts. With a given set of objects, each child will sketch and describe the object, then partners work together to determine...
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Ozark Karst: A Fragile Landform

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young geologists become familiar with the Karst Topography in the Ozark Mountains. They study how human activity has affected the cave ecosystem. They conduct a simulation in which a large development is proposed in the area, and they...
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Earth's History

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate how fossils are formed. They analyze a photo of the Grand Canyon, and create a fossil cast and mold using plaster of paris and shells.
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The Story of Hot Springs, 1500-1900 AD

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study the geology and hydrology of Arkansas hot springs and how they contributed to the development of the city of Hot Springs. They create advertisements for the city of Hot Springs and the therapeutic effects of the waters.