Geology: Rocks and minerals
These resources support teachers and students as they explore rocks and minerals in high school Earth Science classes.
Included Resources
This cutaway view of Earth shows where some common rock-forming processes occur and embedded animations illustrate the path of a rock moving through the rock cycle. This interactive is shared by McDougal Littell.
Scope and sequence connection: Earth Science: Geology: Rocks and minerals.
Discover rock secrets, learn to tell rocks apart and see how they change from one type into another through these interactive activities from the Annenberg Learner.
Scope and sequence connection: Earth science: geology: rocks and minerals; 7:1 Geology.
The Geological Society shares this list of activities, experiments and lesson plans to engage students with topics in earth science.
Scope and Sequence connection: 7:1 Geology.
In this virtual lab on the identification of minerals in rocks, students can conduct the lab, and record their results and observations in an online journal. Created by McGraw Hill. Geology. Requires Flash.
Scope and Sequence connection: 7:1 Geology.
This document shares an overview of the WeTeachNYC collection for high school geology students learning about rocks and minerals.
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