- Anchors Away!
- A Rocky Test
- As Far As I Can Sea
- Bounce
- By All Indications
- Create a Crater
- The Great Diamond Heist
- Fossil Puzzler
- Get Cooking
- Going with the Flow
- How's the Weather?
- Impact!
- It's All Relative
- Keep It Up
- Layers of Earth
- Let's Get Carried Away!
- Look Out Below!
- Motion In The Ocean
- Play Ball
- Sand Shake
- School of Rock
- Shaky Ground
- Smoke on the Water
- Solar System Scale
- Splendid Soil
- Super Soaked Soil
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Warm Colors
- Watching Weather
- Water Cycle
- Weathering Cubes
- What Lies Beneath?
- What Am I?
- Will There Be Enough
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Hands-on Activity
A Rocky Test
Summary
Students will gain an understanding of rock types and their different responses to
physical and chemical weathering.
Overview
Topic: Geology
Real World Science Topics:
Real World Science Topics:
- An exploration of the nature and composition of different rock types
- An exploration of the effects of physical and chemical weathering on rocks
Objective
In this activity, students explore the effects of physical and chemical weathering on various types of rocks.
They use abrasive tools to model physical weathering and observe the effects of a weak acid to model chemical weathering's effects on rocks.
Activity Difficulty Rating: 2 Each hands-on science activity has been ranked based on difficulty of set up and how difficult they are to perform. The rating scale is from 1 to 5, with 1 being the easiest and 5 being the most complicated.
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TAKE FIVE
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