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Rock It

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students dance in lines to "Baby Likes to Rock It" by The Tractors. They begin to learn dance formation: Lines or scattered facing same direction, and learn counts while rocking out to country music.
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Rocks and Minerals Composition Database

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research a specific rock or mineral. They compile the facts into a database which students access for information.
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Putting the Pieces Together

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in groups, explore ecosystems, water cycle, rock cycle, and food web. They create a puzzle piece on white butcher paper based on their information.
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Science Cards

For Students 5th - 6th
For this science worksheet, learners make and fill out two rock and mineral cards for their science class. Students put a fact about rocks and minerals on each one.
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Rock It

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice and perform a dance to the song, Baby Likes to Rock It.
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Earth

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Earth worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by describing the Earth's layers and the types of rocks and landforms found on the Earth.
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Young Writer's Workshop- Writing Prompt Worksheet- Rocks and Gems

For Students 4th - 5th
In this young writer's workshop worksheet, students write a response to the prompt, "Tina looked at all the beautiful rocks and gems. She wanted to buy one for..."
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The Formation of Resources

For Students 9th - 12th
In this rock worksheet, students review the three types of rocks and their distinguishing characteristics. This worksheet has 10 matching and 10 short answer questions.
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Between a Rock and A Hard Place

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners identify what information they would need to make a decision about the breaching of a dam in order to save wild salmon. They evaluate the scenario in depth focusing on the economic impact on the community, and the salmon.
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Rocking the Vote

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore how a presidential candidate can win the popular vote but not receive enough electoral votes to win the election. They analyze various regions' voting trends, explore how these trends reflect the outcome of the...
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Help Wanted: A Lighting Engineer For Popular Rock Group

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are assigned to groups, and determine each member's role in the group. They will design an experiment to determine a way to produce the three primary and five secondary colors. Students discuss color and mood. They listen to a...
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What Happened First?

For Students 7th - 9th
In this rock worksheet, students are given four diagrams of rock formation and they put them in order from the youngest event to the oldest event and explain each diagram.
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What Happened First?

For Students 7th - 9th
In this rock instructional activity, students are given four diagrams of rock formation and they put them in order from the youngest event to the oldest. They explain each diagram.
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Fossil Facts and Finds- Using the Magic Bag

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students investigate fossils. In this geology lesson plan, students study various types of fossils in rocks and identify the characteristics of the fossil. Students write a research paper on their fossil.
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How Rocks Form and Change

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this rocks worksheet, students will complete a graphic organizer by filling in the different ways rocks are formed and changed.
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America: The Land We Live In: Landmarks

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the concept of landmarks.  In this landmark instructional activity, students brainstorm different landmarks around their community and nationally.  Students then identify the patterns in Georgia O'Keeffe's...
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Minerals and Rocks

For Students 9th - 11th
In this geology worksheet, students locate 55 rock and mineral terms in a word search. Answers to the word search are available in various formats.
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What Is Clay?

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
This resource could come in handy the next time you feel like teaching about clay. Basic sculpting techniques, vocabulary, and history of clay are outlined in this informative resource. Use prior to teaching an art project involving...
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Finding the Ages of Rocks and Fossils

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice dating fossils. They learn the concept of "deep time"--that earth was formed billions of years ago. They experience excellent hand-outs and virtual age tutorial links.
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Rocks, Gems, and Minerals

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review by sorting and classifying minerals. They describe the composition of a mineral and use rules to classify that mineral. They complete a mineral scratch test and place the results in a table in the second activity.
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Lucky Rock and Roll Fitness

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, while listening to upbeat music playing in the background, are introduced to six different exercises: push ups, curl ups, jumping jacks, squat thrusts, windmills, and leg lifts. They participate in a game called Fitness Gamble.
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Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore rhyming and rhythm. In this rhythm and rhyme lesson, students listen to the song, "A-Hunting We Will Go" and add new verses to the song with words that rhyme. Students use an interactive tool to create these new verses.
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Strong-Arm Tactics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Experience collecting rock samples using a robotic arm with an activity that has pairs work together to operate a robotic arm. One pupil serves as the eyes and the other operates the controller. The objective is to be the fastest pair to...
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Small Trebuchet

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Travel back to medieval time where learning is just a stone's throw away! A video introduction shows a trebuchet (catapult-like machine) as it launches a rock into a lake. Learners use their quadratic modeling skills to predict the...

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