Rocks, Soil and Sand Journal - University of Wisconsin ... and Soil Journal Activity #1 Rock Sort Smooth Sharp Bumpy Gray Black White Red Speckled Sparkly

Rocks, Soil and Sand Journal

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Rocks and Soil Journal

Activity #1 Rock Sort

Smooth

Sharp Bumpy

Gray

Black White

Red

Speckled Sparkly

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Activity #2 Student Made Rock Book

Rocks

By __________________

A rock can be ___________.

A rock can be ___________.

A rock can be ___________.

A rock can be ___________.

A rock can be ___________.

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Activity #3 Scavenger Hunt

Find a small rock.

Find a medium size rock.

Find a smooth rock.

Find a sharp rock.

Find a bumpy rock.

Find a white rock.

Find a black rock.

Find a gray rock.

Find a speckled rock.

Find a sparkly rock.

Find a red rock.

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Activity #4 Rock Graph

10

9

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1 smooth sharp bumpy white black gray speckled sparkly red

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Activity #5 Rock Order

Put rocks in order from largest to smallest.

Put rocks in order from smallest to largest.

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Activity #6 Rock Balance

ESTIMATE ACTUAL

NUMBER

Crayons

Cars Marbles

Scissors

Cubes Glue

Sticks

Dice

1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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Activity #7 Rock Coaster

Plan how you are going to design your rock coaster.

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Activity #8 Soil Samples

Sample #1

Color

Feels

Sample #2

Color

Feels

Sample #3

Color

Feels

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Activity #9 Soil Painting

Use this space to make a practice picture before drawing

and painting on the construction paper.

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Activity #10 Soil Slides

1. Get one index card, a hole punch, clear tape and soil.

2. Punch a hole in the index card.

3. Put clear tape over the hole so the sticky side is

touching the index card.

4. Put soil on the sticky side of the tape, so that it shows

in the hole.

5. Cover the hole with clear tape over the soil.

Soil from Timmy’s backyard.

Evansville, WI

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Activity #11 Soil Maps

The soil in my yard looks _______________________

____________________________________________.

This is like ______________________’s soil because

___________________________________________.

This is different than _________________’s soil because

___________________________________________.

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Activity #12 Worm Farm

Draw a prediction of what you think you may see when

the black paper is removed.

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Activity #13 Sand Blowing

Create a design you will draw with your glue. Think it

out and practice here before drawing with glue on the

construction paper.

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Activity #14 Sand Shaker Bottles

Make a list of what you will put in your bottle.

PICTURE WORDS

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This was my favorite activity because

________________________________________________

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