Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Understand that rocks are formed in 3 different ways.
- Devise comparative tests for rocks, record and evaluate observations and results.
Activities
- Learn the 3 different ways that rocks can be formed (Yr3&4).
- Conduct a rock test for either hardness (Yr4) or permeability (Yr3) and try to make it fair.
- Conduct an acid test to help identify samples of rock using an identification key (Yr3&4).
- Practise presenting information to viewers on what they have learnt this session (Yr3&4).
Investigation - classifying and identifying, fair testing, problem solving
The next part of the programme will need to explain to viewers how rocks are made. Discover the 3 different types of rock – sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic and explain these to the viewers. Conduct different tests to determine which kind of rock the samples are.
Year 3 - Conduct water and hardness tests and write notes to explain to the viewers what this shows.
Year 4 - Conduct an acid test and write notes to explain to the viewers what this tells us.
Vocabulary
Petrologist, man-made rocks, brick, tile, concrete, Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, permeable, impermeable, acid, erosion, marble, chalk, limestone, slate, granite, sandstone, identification key