Rocking Through the Rock Cycle
Mary Mutrux, Missouri State University-Springfield
The students will participate as matter traveling through the rock cycle while drawing cards from 4 rock matter stations (magma, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic). Afterwards, the student will demonstrate their path using a laser pointer in a projected large the rock cycle diagram.

The Rock Cycle: building descriptive skills
Alyssa Abbey, California State University-Long Beach
The goal of this activity is to have students become comfortable and adept at making observations about differences in rocks, describing those differences in a useful and meaningful way, and making connections with ...

Learning Assessment #2 - The Rock Cycle
Leslie Reid, University of Calgary; Michelle Speta, University of Calgary
An in-class activity that tests students' understanding of the rock cycle.

Rock cycle in chocolate lab
Pete Stelling, Western Washington University;
This lab activity simulates the rock cycle with a piece of chocolate instead of actual rock. Students melt, crystallize, erode, lithify and metamorphose a single small block of chocolate. Along the way students ...

Rock Cycle Skit
Rich Teske Pierz Healy High School, Pierz MN
This activity is a skit, commercial or song/rap about the rock cycle

Investigating the Rock Cycle Through Writing and Illustrating
Leah Campbell, Central Intermediate School; Alissa Naymark, Rochester Public Schools
This activity is a quantative writing activity where students will use writing and illustrations to show their knowledge of the basic rock cycle.

The Rock Cycle: A hands on Simulation
jill selchow
This activity is a hands-on simulation of the rock cycle.

Earth History: Crayon Rock Cycle
Jane Schaffran
This is a classroom activity in which students develop understanding of the rock cycle using wax crayons to model the processes that form the 3 types of rock; sedimentary, igneous & metamorphic.

Investigations based on the rock cycle.
Jason Morzenti, Minneapolis Urban League Academy
This activity is a field investagation where students will discover answers to their questions about the rock cycle.

ConcepTest: Rock Cycle Temperature Profile #3
The graph below illustrates how the temperature changed with time for part of the rock cycle. Which of the following is best represented by the graph? a. magma forms a plutonic igneous rock that is then uplifted to ...