Grade 4 Rocks and Minerals
Nine printable pages for the Grade 4 rocks and minerals expectation: minerals and rocks, the three kinds of rock, mineral tests (streak, lustre, magnetism, the vinegar fizz test), a hands-on rock-sorting investigation, everyday uses and a quiz. Canadian examples and a full answer key.
9 printable pages · teacher notes and answer key · Ontario
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Nine pages for Ontario’s Grade 4 expectation on classifying rocks and minerals. Students learn what a mineral is and how rocks are built from minerals, then sort rocks into igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. They use real tests (streak, lustre, magnetism, hardness and the vinegar fizz test) to identify mystery minerals.
The examples are Canadian: the 4-billion-year-old Acasta Gneiss, the fossils of the Burgess Shale, the Canadian Shield and Ontario’s official mineral, amethyst. The hands-on investigation works with any bag of schoolyard rocks. Teacher notes, a quiz and a full answer key are included.
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What's inside
- 01Teacher NotesTeacher notes
- 02Rocks Are Made of MineralsReading
- 03Three Kinds of RockReading
- 04Mystery MineralsPractice
- 05Rock DetectivesActivity
- 06Which Kind of Rock?Practice
- 07Rocks and Minerals Around UsPractice
- 08Rocks and Minerals QuizAssessment
- 09Answer KeyAnswer key