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Investigating Rock Types
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Patrons learn about sedimentary rocks by writing down their observations of a rock on index cards, and then trade their card with a partner and try to identify which rock their partner had based on what they wrote down
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Related Programming Resources
| Hints for uses in your library | You can do this same activity with metamorphic and igneous rocks |
| Related Links |
American Geosciences Institute
Rock Cycle NASA: Mission Geography The Geological Society of America What are Sedimentary Rocks? What are Metamorphic Rocks? USGS: What are Igneous Rocks? |
| Originating Source | Earth Science Week |
| Related Books [Suggest a book] |
Geology by Boy Scouts of America
Rocks by Melanie Ostopowich The Rock Cycle by Rebecca E Hirsch The Rock Cycle by Rebecca Pettiford Sedimentary Rocks by Rebecca E Hirsch Metamorphic Rocks by Richard Spilsbury Igneous Rocks by Lisa Owings |