Rock Collecting by: Roma Gans

This book explains how to start a rock collection and how to recognize igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Read this book to find out how to start your own rock collection and then complete some of these activities!
 

With partners, discuss ways rocks are formed. Share your ideas with another set of partners. Record your ideas on a poster that can be used later to help classmates clarify possible questions about how rocks are formed. Hang your poster on the bulletin board.

Complete this question in your journal: How do the illustrations, diagrams and photographs in this book help the reader to understand the ways rocks are formed and used?

Brainstorm a list of places where you can see rocks in use in your home and in your community.

Identify differences between man-made rock such as cement, brick, concrete, and cinder block, with natural rock. Use a Venn diagram.

Your class will be creating a book called All About Rocks. Your job will be to contribute a page on how rocks are used.
Before you begin, think about the ways you observe rocks being used in your community. Think about how rocks are used in your life. Look for books in your library that might provide more information. You will need to organize your page in paragraph form using correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.