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This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, covers these concepts: the Earth has layers, the Earth’s crust is made of rock and soil, soil is made when rocks break down and mix with decaying plants, rocks have different properties, rocks are formed in different ways, the surface of the Earth is always changing, the resources we use come from the Earth, some rocks contain fossils that tell about life on Earth long ago. Activities help children practice skills in: observation, analysis, communication, making comparisons, prediction, critical thinking, and recording. Areas of study address major themes such as: change, structure, function, diversity, and cause and effect. Samples of the hands-on learning experiences: conduct experiments to learn about the properties of rocks, cook up igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, examine soil to find out what it’s composed of, erupt a volcano in the classroom, make “fossils”. Contains many reproducible.ISBN - 9788176498036
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Pages : 80
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