2nd & 3rd Grade Earth Science Unit – Types of Rocks & Minerals Activities

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Looking for fun and engaging activities to teach your 2nd and 3rd grade students all about types of rocks and minerals? This jam-packed earth science unit has everything you need to teach your students about the difference between rocks and minerals by studying their properties and characteristics with fun hands-on science materials. This earth science resource has fun activities, labs, vocabulary posters, nonfiction readers, and more!

 

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2nd & 3rd Grade Earth Science Unit – Types of Rocks & Minerals Activities Includes:

• 5 easy to follow lessons
• A mini vocabulary word wall
• Vocabulary cards with definitions
• Mini Vocabulary Posters with high-quality real-life pictures
• Vocabulary Foldables and notes page
• Anchor chart ideas and resources
• Fun printable posters
• Nonfiction reader to help you introduce the topic (great for printing or to display on a TV screen.
• Create your own picture book activity
• Properties of Rocks investigation
• Mass and Size investigation
• More Properties or Rocks Online Lab
• KWL chart
• Bubble map
• 3.2.1 notes page
• Types of rocks T Chart
• Types of rocks foldable
• Types of rocks description worksheet
• Properties hunt (investigate things that are shiny, hard, rough, and soft)
• Properties hunt (investigate things that are smooth, bumpy, dull, and squishy)
• 4 square activity
• I spy facts in a book activity
• Types of rocks cut and sort activity
• Wordsearch
• Drawing prompts
• Writing papers
• End of the unit quiz and key

 

This 2nd & 3rd Grade Earth Science Unit Will Teach Your Students About…

• Rocks (What they are made of and their properties)
• Types of rocks (Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic)
• Minerals (Examples and characteristics)
• Geologists (Who are they and what do they do)

 

This earth science resource is jam-packed with resources ready to go so that you do not have to spend valuable prep time planning a rocks and minerals unit for your class! Just print and go to get started learning all about the types of rocks with your students! 

 

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