Science topic

Grade 7 rocks, soil and water

Rocks and minerals, soil, erosion and the water cycle. Here is what we have for Grade 7.

Lessons

Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates

Press model fossils and read a cliff of layers, shake a jar of soil and watch it sort itself by grain size, plot real volcanoes and earthquakes on a world map to find the edges of Earth's plates, then move model plates and test a building on a shake table. Four hands-on lessons that build on Rocks and Erosion.

Free tools

Rock Cycle

Melt, cool, weather, squeeze and heat rocks to see how igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock turn into each other, with real examples of each.

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