Topic outline
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A list of places that rocks might be obtained for teaching kits.
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A simple rock classification activity to start students thinking about how rocks may be categorised.The teacher notes also include a demonstration to allow discussion on how the three rock types form.
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A simple dichotomous key to assist with the classification of rocks.
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Recipes to create your very own replica rocks. Good for schools with very few rock samples and to assist students with their understanding of rock formation.
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Students consider a number of pebbles collected to work out the answers to a series of statements.
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Activities to distinguish metamorphic rocks from igneous ones, to examine differences between metamorphic rocks and their parents (protoliths) and to consider the temperatures and pressures involved in metamorphism.
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Important background information for teachers.
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Student identify a series of photographs of sedimentary rocks using a dichotomous key.
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Students research the terms intrusive and extrusive, mafic and felsic and then use these to classify a series of photographs of igneous rocks.
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Students consider what metamorphism is.
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