Thursday
- Read Let's Go Rock Collecting by Roma Gans.
- Complete Evan-Moor ScienceWorks for Kids: Geology, Grades 1-3 "Rocks Have Different Properties - Rock Talk" and "Sorting Rocks" (pages 27-28).
Friday
- Read – If You Find a Rock by Peggy Christian
- Complete Evan-Moor ScienceWorks for Kids: Geology, Grades 1-3 "Rocks Have Different Properties - Colors and Patterns" and "Size and Weight" (page 29).
- Reread "Moh's Scale of Hardness" (pages 16-17) from Let's Go Rock Collecting by Roma Gans.
- Complete Evan-Moor ScienceWorks for Kids: Geology, Grades 1-3 "Rocks Have Different Properties - Hardness" and "Buoyancy" (page 30).
- Read Rocks and Minerals by Steve Tomecek.
- Complete Evan-Moor ScienceWorks for Kids: Geology, Grades 1-3 "Rocks Have Different Properties - Rock Properties" (page 31).
So we got distracted and ended up doing this our own way. A fun way that worked for Giraffe. The books weren't a favourite but we read the basic points and then had fun with testing the rocks.
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| these were the categories we opted to test for based on a kit From Young Scientists that Ketchup used earlier this year. |
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| Amused by the floating rock (pumice) |
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| Equally amused by the magnetic rock (magnetite - Lodestone) |
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