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

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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 Bundle 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, digital resources, labs, vocabulary posters, nonfiction readers, and more! This resource is a bundle of my worksheets and digital units.

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)

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

Printable Version 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

Google Slides Version includes:

– Student-friendly links to help your students understand the topic

– Vocabulary cards (can easily be printed and used however you wish)

– Vocabulary Match It!

– Vocabulary sentence writing and picture activity

– Introduction/reading slides 

– Comprehension questions 

– KWL

– Bubble Maps

– True or False activity

– Properties of rocks recording activity

– Mass and size activity

– Types of rocks – note page

– Drag and sort activity

– 3.2.1 Notes page 

– Wordsearch 

– 2 fun writing prompts 

Your students will love having a hands-on activity to work on. For students to be able to complete this, they must have access to the internet and a Google account. Students will need to know simple computer skills, such as how to type in a text box and drag/drop image boxes.

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