'Hands-On Science: Rocks and Minerals' offers 17 ready-to-use activities for exploring crystal structures, types of rocks, weathering, geologic history, and more. With this valuable resource you get materials covering the essentials of minerals, mineral identification, rock formation, weathering, erosion and deposition, fossils and geologic history, and more. Each activity has a Teacher Resource section that includes, besides helpful hints and suggestions, a scoring rubric, quiz questions, and Internet connections for those students who wish to go further and carry out the follow-up activities. Instructional objectives and the National Science Standards that apply to each activity are provided to help you meet state and local expectations. This book is not intended as a text, but rather as a supplement. All of the activities need not be done. Pick and choose those activities that best meet the needs of your students. Students will need only basic, standard scientific equipment that can be found in most middle and high school science laboratories. Softcover, 96 pages. |
