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Rock Cycle Skit part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a skit, commercial or song/rap about the rock cycle

Grade Level: Middle (6-8)
Subject: Geoscience
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity

The Rock Cycle: A hands on Simulation part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a hands-on simulation of the rock cycle.

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5)
Subject: Geoscience
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity

Earth History: Crayon Rock Cycle part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
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.

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5)
Subject: Geoscience
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity

Investigating the Rock Cycle Through Writing and Illustrating part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a quantative writing activity where students will use writing and illustrations to show their knowledge of the basic rock cycle.

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5)
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Sedimentary Geology:Weathering
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity

Investigating the Rock Cycle: Looking at similarities and differences in rocks in the rock cycle. part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a lab inquiry-base lesson on the rock cycle. Students will look at the parts of the rock cycle by examining three rocks. Based on their observations and data they collect they should be able to develop a hypothesis and an experiment to test this hypothesis.

Grade Level: Middle (6-8)
Subject: Geoscience
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity

Investigations based on the rock cycle. part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investagation where students will discover answers to their questions about the rock cycle.

Grade Level: Middle (6-8)
Subject: Geoscience
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity

Exploring Rocks: Rock Identification and The Rock Cycle part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a class lab activity in which students will observe unknown rocks and learn about how they fit into the rock cycle.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Subject: Geoscience:Geology
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity

Collecting and Identifying Rocks part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Subject: Geoscience
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity

Investigating the rate of weathering on various rock types. part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Students will make observations of weathering on different rock types in a cemetery. Students will also make observations of rock types of the Minneopa Falls.

Grade Level: Middle (6-8)
Subject: Geoscience
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity

Rock Characteristics Exploration at Minnehaha Falls part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students observe and develop ideas about rock outcrops and rock characteristics.

Grade Level: Middle (6-8)
Subject: Geoscience
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity