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Serc: Investigating Rocks Lesson PlanSerc: Investigating Rocks Lesson Plan
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
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3rd - 5th
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Serc: Investigating Rocks

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In this classroom guided inquiry lesson, students will become geologists. They will investigate rocks and the properties we can use to describe them. Students will observe, record, and reflect on their findings. They will record their observations in their science notebooks throughout the lesson. After the investigation, students will develop a hypothesis as to what they think rocks are made of. Students will draw a conclusion later on in the unit after they study minerals.

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Concepts

geology, granite, types of rocks

Additional Tags

ingneous, plutonic, investigating rocks, geologist

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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