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Stone Safari

Stone Safari
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Description

This worksheet encourages students to get out in the natural world to look for and identify the three different types of rocks. This activity can be used on its own, or in conjunction with presentation or larger geology unit available on Teach This.

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Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9S3H01 9

Examine how people use data to develop scientific explanations

AC9S5U02 9

Describe how weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition cause slow or rapid change to Earth’s surface

ACSHE050 8.4

Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships

ACSSU075 8.4

Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity

ST2-1WS-S old

Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations

ST2-2DP-T old

Selects and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity

ST2-4LW-S old

Compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things

ST2-5LW-T old

Describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants and raise animals for food, clothing and shelter

ST2-10ES-S old

Investigates regular changes caused by interactions between the Earth and the Sun, and changes to the Earth’s surface

VCSSU062

Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity

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