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.
Examine how people use data to develop scientific explanations
Describe how weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition cause slow or rapid change to Earth’s surface
Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships
Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity
Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations
Selects and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
Compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things
Describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants and raise animals for food, clothing and shelter
Investigates regular changes caused by interactions between the Earth and the Sun, and changes to the Earth’s surface
Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity