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Unit Plan: Rocks and Minerals Collection

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Digging Into Rocks With Young Children Journal Article
Engineering for the Three Little Pigs

This activity helps to demonstrate the importance of rocks, soils, and minerals in engineering and how using the right material for the right job is important. The students build 3 different sand castles composed of varying amounts of sand, water, and glue. The 'buildings' in this lesson are made of sand and glue, sand being a soil and glue being composed of different minerals.They then test them ...

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The Early Years: Rocks Tell a Story Journal Article