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 * ~ Lesson Plans and Websites ||
 * < **Angela**

__**Websites**__:

A short overview video on rocks and minerals from the website science kids. http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/chemistry/mineralchemistry.html

This is a good website for students to be able to go and see the actual pictures of minerals and rocks. @http://www.rocksforkids.com/

This is a good website to show different pictures of rocks and there are also games on there for the students to play. @http://www.neok12.com/Types-of-Rocks.htm

A great source to teach kids about rocks in the form of a song about the types of rocks and what happens to them when they are broken down. media type="custom" key="10842491"

1. Rock Cycle

2. Rock Song

3. Rock Cycle Rap

__**Lesson Plans**__:

This lesson plan helps students identify by examining rock characteristics and processes. @http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=16293

This lesson plan helps students identify minerals. @http://www.instructorweb.com/lesson/identifymineral.asp

This lesson plan helps students identify minerals. @http://lessonplansource.com/rocks-and-minerals-unit-lesson-2/ ||


 * Mariah**

This lesson plan is for third grade. Students make hypothesis about rocks and minerals, and then they make observations through different experiments and they record them in their journals. http://www.newhavenscience.org/31RocksOverview.pdf

This is a great website for fossils. It has many different things that can be accessed through this one website. It has fun fossil facts, fossil activities for kids, fossil lesson plans, and much more. http://www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/earth_science_lesson_plans.html

This lesson plan allows students to make different comparisons through comparing three different rocks and recording what they observe. It also allows the students to choose their own rule for sorting rocks.This is for fifth grade. http://gk-12.osu.edu/Lessons/3rd%20Grade/RocksAndMinerals%203.pdf

This is a great website. It has videos that show how fossils are formed and also has many fossil activities for kids. http://www.valdosta.edu/~lakidd/topic.html#Cool_

This website has activities, but is a lesson plan in itself. It is a six day process which makes students understand more about rocks and fossils. It acts as if a museum display on rocks and fossils have been messed up and the students must figure out how to rearrange them by learning the rock cycle. It has worksheets, activities, and puzzles. http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/education/webquests/teacher/rocks/rock.htm

This is a great informational video with audio and pictures that demonstrates the rock cycle. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/science_up_close/506/deploy/interface.html

This website has questions and answers that children may have about rocks and fossils. http://www.childrensmuseum.org/geomysteries/faqs.html

This lesson plan compares fossils and dinosaurs. It allows the children to understand fact from theory with fossils. It also teaches students how fossils are formed. http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.php?DocID=93


 * Lesson Plans (Sarah)**

This lesson plan is designed for 3rd graders. It introduces the three different types of rocks and how they are each formed. It also lists different types of rocks in each of the three categories of rocks.
 * @http://geologyonline.museum.state.il.us/tools/lessons/4.3/lesson.pdf**

This lesson plan talks about the different properties that rocks can have and how students can test these properties. It also talks about how these properties are used to form different materials from the rocks.
 * @http://www.newhavenscience.org/31RocksOverview.pdf**

This lesson plan is designed for 3rd graders. It's used after the students know about the different types of rocks. It makes students think about what Earthly materials use rocks. I think this is a great way to get students to think about rocks. @http://geologyonline.museum.state.il.us/tools/lessons/4.5/lesson.html


 * Websites (Sarah)**

This website is real neat. It talks about the rock cycle and has a link you can go to to watch a video of the rock cycle. It also has a link to a chart of the different types of rocks.
 * @http://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/Article/rocks-and-rock-cycle**

This website is very informative. It includes both rocks and fossils. It gives information on both subjects. It also lists activities that can be used in the classroom.
 * @http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/education/webquests/teacher/rocks/rock.htm**

This is a neat website that you can select which rock or types of rocks you want to learn about. It then gives a description of the rock and then shows pictures of them.
 * 6/EarthMaterials/activities/rockdatabase/index.html**

This website would be really good for kids. It talks about how rocks are made of minerals and gives cute examples. It also talks about each type of rock and the rock cycle. It also lists examples of each of the types of rocks and tells what each rock is made up of.
 * http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/howrocks.html#Rocks**