Rock N' Science! - Classroom Kit and Teacher Guide!

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28 student lessons and teacher instructions about Earth Materials and Fossils for the whole class, meeting the National Science Content standards D1 and D2! Take a rock'n science trip back in time as we study the fossil remains of ancient creatures. We'll also take a closer look at the basic geology of Earth. This Seela Science Kit contains 28 exciting activities designed to help your classroom kids explore Earth materials and fossils. You'll dig up a lot of interesting new ideas about Earth's surface, and discover how scientists test rocks and minerals to find out what they are. You'll also explore Earth's ancient history as you "bone up" on fossils and related natural artifacts.

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Rock N' Science Science Kit includes these lesson on Earth Materials and Fossils:

1. Apple World - Concept: Earth Structure - What's the Earth like inside? Let's cut an apple and make an Apple World. Learn about the crust, mantle, inner and outer cores, mountains, earthquakes, volcanoes, and more! Includes 11 additional classroom ideas. 2. Dirt Recipe - Concept: Soil's Makeup - There's recipes for all sorts of kitchen goodies, but who's ever heard of a soil recipe? It doesn't sound the least bit good for eating, but no living thing survives without a really good Dirt Recipe! Let's dig in, get a little dirty, and find out the real dirt on soil. Includes 13 additional classroom ideas. 3. The Great Dirt Divide - Concept: Soil Separation - What is dirt? Divide into groups and learn about soil types, texture, nutrients, bedrock, and weathered soil. Includes 11 additional classroom ideas. 4. Two-Liter Groundwater - Concept: Groundwater - How does rainwater become clean enough to drink? Learn about impurities, filtration, gravity, and contamination in groundwater! Includes 12 additional classroom ideas. 5. Cave on a String - Concept: Groundwater/Caves - Here's a chance to visit a cave, a Cave on a String right on your desktop! Learn about rocks & minerals that are water-soluble, stalactites and stalagmites, even Karst topography. Includes 12 additional classroom ideas. 6. All That Glitters - Concept: Pyrite - There was a television show years ago called "The Millionaire". Each week someone was chosen to be given a million dollars, tax free! What would you do with a million dollars? Learn about pyrite - "fool's gold", streak test, density, hardness, and luster, as well as Moh's Scale. Includes 11 additional classroom ideas. 7. Wonderstone - Concept: Rhyolite - Body parts are important. Earth's materials are made of parts too! Let's find out more. Learn about sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock, volcanoes, earthquake faults and extrusive and intrusive rocks. Includes 11 additional classroom ideas. 8. Floating Rock - Concept: Pumice - What kind of things float? Some great answers might be wood, plastic, even the bathtub soap! But is there a floating rock? Let's find out! Includes 15 additional classroom ideas. 9. Prehistoric Pizza Cutter - Concept: Obsidian - What do people use to cut their food? Of course, most use a knife? Did you ever wonder what people used before steel knives? Could it have been rocks? Includes 10 additional classroom ideas. 10. Stone Balloon - Concept: Agate - Who ever heard of a balloon made out of stone? That sounds pretty crazy, doesn't it? Let's investigate a bit deeper as we learn about igneous materials and precious and semi-precious rocks. Don't drop this balloon on your foot! Includes 11 additional classroom ideas. 11. Hard Rock Science - Concept: Hardness - How do scientists measure a rock or mineral's hardness? Learn about everything from talc, the softest rock, to diamond, the hardest. How do the atoms and molecules arranged to determine hardness? Includes 13 additional classroom ideas. 12. Bubbly Rock - Concept: Acid Test - Feel the piece of limestone. A rock's hardness is why it's used for making buildings, roads, and even statues! But even hard will eventually wear down and crumble away. This Bubbly Rock activity shows one way rocks can be broken down. Includes 10 additional classroom ideas. 13. Rock Crumbs - Concept: Streak Test - You've seen bread crumbs and cake crumbs, but have you ever seen rock crumbs? Of course, these are NOT for your consumption, only for your mind's consumption! Learn about quartz, silicates, luster, intensity, and absorbed and reflected light. Includes 15 additional classroom ideas. 14. Earth's Top Ten - Concept: Resources - Everybody likes to make lists! Here's your chance to make a list of the most common elements you're standing on. That's right, the good old Mother Earth! Chemical formulas, reactions and compounds, ore, mineral, crystal, and the atoms that make them up. Includes 10 additional classroom ideas. 15. Modern Materials Mapping - Concept: Resources - Look around you in the classroom. Notice how many different things there are? What do you think they're made of? From what Earth material are they made from? Those are great questions, so let's find out! Includes 11 additional classroom ideas. 16. Roasted Coal - Concept: Fossil Fuels - What's inside coal? Learn how plants decompose combined with gravity's pull, pressure, and other factors create coal. Peat, lignite, bituminous, anthracite, coal tar, coal gas, and more! Includes 15 additional classroom ideas. 17. Raisin Resources - Concept: Mining/Resources - We all need resources to live. So let's find our more about resources with cookies! Includes 14 additional classroom ideas. 18. Mineral Detective #1 - Concept: Rose Quartz - Have students determine the specimen. This unknown rock or mineral is a very common material found on Earth's crust. When it wears away to a very small size, it is commonly found in sand and gravel. Includes 12 additional classroom ideas. 19. Mineral Detective #2 - Concept: Amethyst - Have students determine the specimen. This unknown is made of really small crystals, special arrangements of the atoms in this specimen. It's also known for these pretty crystals and is even a birthstone! Includes 11 additional classroom ideas. 20. Mineral Detective #3 - Concept: Calcite - Have your students determine the specimen! This specimen was made from ocean animals whose shells were covered up and formed into what you see here. Shell out some more work here to learn more about it! Includes 12 additional classroom ideas. 21. Mineral Detective #4 - Concept: Magnetite - Have your students determine the specimen! This specimen is also mined from the earth to make iron. Anything mined from the earth which can be used to get a useful material is called an "ore". (but it won't row a boat!) Includes 10 additional classroom ideas. 22. Mineral Detective #5 - Concept: Talc - Have your students determine the specimen! This specimen is very artistic! Some folks carve it into some neat stuff. Keep your pocketknife in your pocket, no carving here, just good old scientific testing please! Includes 13 additional classroom ideas. 23. Mineral Detective #6 - Concept: Pyrite - Have your students determine the specimen! Come folks call it "fools gold". They just didn't have these tests to learn more about it, did they? Show them you're no "fool", figure out more about this specimen! Includes 11 additional classroom ideas. 24. Mineral Detective #7 - Concept: Mica - Have your students determine the specimen! At one time people used much more pure forms of this specimen for "windows" to see through. Granted they couldn't see much, but "enlighten" yourself with some testing! Includes 9 additional classroom ideas. 25. Mineral Detective #8 - Concept: Jasper - Have your students determine the specimen! A specimen you'll find uncooperative, but pretty. Do you know anyone like this? Includes 10 additional classroom ideas. 26. Fast Fossil - Concept: Fossils - You're heard of fossils, right? Make your own Fast Fossil, and save millions of years! Permineralization, microfossils, decomposition, recycle, organisms, there's so much to learn! Includes 12 additional classroom ideas. 27. Fresh Cup of Fossils - Concept: Fossils - Let's have a Fresh Cup of Fossils with some old coffee! Learn about fossilization, sediments, scavengers, permineralization, lithification, and so much more! Includes 17 additional classroom ideas. 28. Bones! Dig 'em! - Concept: Fossil "dig" - Here's your chance to dig for fossils! Learn how paleontologists dig for specimens and how radioactive dating can determine the age of a fossil. Law of superposition, groundwater effects, decomposition, petrification, preservation, and more more more! Includes 12 additional classroom ideas.