Mineral Puzzle
Mineral Puzzle
Appropriate for Grades: 3-6
Length: 20 minutes
Kit Description
Use rock samples to guide conversation about how rocks and minerals differ, where they are found and how we use them. Warm up with a rock sample matching activity. Next, build rocks from minerals using a puzzle. Finally, students create a work of art by combining their minerals to make a granite "sculpture."
Kit Includes
- Program Resources folder
- Activity information
- Photos of granite
- Sample puzzle
- 4 manilla envelopes with cut out puzzle pieces
- Copies of rock patterns
- Bag of construction paper
- Case of crayons
- 1 pair of scissors
