Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Geologist for a day


 I thought it would be fun to get this little kit for Ginger to help her learn about rocks and minerals and what geologists do.
 She worked at at for a long time and then got tired.  So I worked on it and then let Jack and Gretchen have a go.  no rocks were found. so we all took turns again and then finally a rock was spotted.



 Eleven total. A poster came with the kit that gave tips on how to identify the rocks and test their hardness. Ginger loved this activity. The rocks were quite smaller than I expected, but Ginger was not disappointed one bit.

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2 comments:

Granma Faye said...

What a very cool project! Nice!

We have a real discovery with a dig in the Seattle area. A huge tusk from an ice age mammoth was found a couple of days ago. Pretty exciting and interesting.

Kaela said...

Awesome!! I'm going to have to add this to my list of things to do with my kiddos too :) I love activities like this that take longer for them to do, keep them completely engaged and teach them something too!