Geology Rocks!: 50 Hands-On Activities to Explore the Earth (Kaleidoscope Kids)

I purchased this book to supplement my curriculum while teaching a class on rocks to 4-6th graders. It was a great resource! I personally felt like it wasn't too technical (easy to grasp concepts) while at the same time not watered down so much as to be ridiculous. It has great little projects. I had a great time picking a choosing concepts out of it to teach. For example, when we learned about what a mineral is, I used a page from the book that demonstrates minerals by having the kids go "shopping" for minerals. It tells you to gather items like an empty milk carton, baby powder, toothpaste, pencils. Then you tell the kids to go shopping or on a savenger hunt, how ever you want to say it, and you tell to find the minerals calcium, talc, fluoride, and graphite. The kids then walk around the room and decide which minerals we find in which items. There were more options than just those minerals, but you get the general idea. I did need other books beside this one to teach the class because I wanted a bit more scientific terms for the kids but this was a great supplement. Love it!!!

Grandson loved it.

I work with elementary age school children after school and during summer camp. We have done some exploring of rocks and where we get gold and precious stones. "Geology Rocks" has some of the best hands on activities I have ever come accross for demonstrating the processes of the formation of the minerals and how to extract them from the earth. They especially enjoyed chip mining! It makes the learning process so much fun, the children hate to stop the activities.

You must buy this book. It is packed with learning activities for children.One example: The section on caves in this book has your kids creating stalactites (it's not *too* messy, Mom) and discovering how surface precipitation dissolves limestone to create caverns. I love hands-on books, and this one has plenty of science projects for your kids to do with (and this is important) MINIMAL PARENTAL HELP.Your seven-year-olds and up will be on fire to learn more. Even littler brothers and sisters can get in on the excitement with rock collections and plate tectonics... this book can't be beat.

What a great introduction to Geology for my kids! We are using this book as part of our homeschooling curriculum. It has loads of great hands on activities that keep my kids engaged. We are using this along with The Young Scientist Series Set 3.

Bought this for our first year of homeschooling (6th grade). This book has a lot of wonderful hands-on experiments. I know we are going to have a great time with it.

I got this for my grandson, who has developed a love of geology. He gives this book "two thumbs up" and has already re-read it several times. He highly recommends it.

I bought this to use as a supplement for my son's science curriculum. It is full of great hands-on activites and experiments. If your child is learning about rocks and minerals and between the ages of 7-10, I would highly recommend this book. My 4th grader has really enjoyed it so far this year.

I like all the activities in here but as a class teacher I would probably leave a couple of them out just because of health and safety. However there is still plenty to be getting on with. I have based a geology topic around the book and can't wait to try it out with my class. I think this book takes what could potentially be a very dry subject and brings it to life to make it fun and interesting. I know my pupils will just love it.

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