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Activities

  1. Collectively make a list of questions on rocks that can be answered through a range of scientific enquiries during the course of the topic.
  2. Undertake The Hard Rock Challenge – a game that requires them to begin to observe rocks carefully and group them in different ways according to their features.
  3. Make detailed labelled drawings of 6 common rocks and write descriptions of their observable features.
  4. Learn the names of 6 common rocks whilst playing an active game – Rock Stars!

Investigation - exploring, classifying and identifying
 Explore a variety of rocks and group them in different ways according to their observable features and attributes.

Vocabulary
 Rock, sandstone, limestone, chalk, granite, slate, marble, classification, observation

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