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A fantastic non-fiction story about the different ways we see rocks in our world. Each section reinforces the idea that a rock is not sedentary (as many children would assume), rather, rocks are lively! This book delves into the thought that humans interact with rocks and minerals, but also water, plants, air and wind interact with them as well.
Hutts Aston, Dianna. A Rock is Lively. Illust. by Sylvia Long. Chronicle Books, 2012.

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A Rock Is Lively: Aston, Dianna Hutts, Long, Sylvia: 9781452145556: Books - Amazon.ca

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This short 5min video is chosen because it discusses, in very straightforward format, the composition of a rock. Children feel like they are in the museum on a virtual field trip and see portions of the exhibit with a guide (Caitie) who asks the questions that would likely come from kids. The docent uses samples to show what she means and students would get the basic idea, but allows for many more questions to be posed from here.
Reference:
"Let's Learn About Rocks and Minerals | Caitie's Classroom | Science For Kids." YouTube, YouTube, 11 July 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJXaWRptQo. Accessed 21 July 2021.

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Explore Amazing Rocks and Minerals! | Caitie's Classroom Field Trip | Science & Colors For Kids

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A charming narrative storybook, this book helps students take the perspective of an old rock and the 'life' it has lived. We can prompt students to think about rocks in a different way and discuss how the rock has been influenced by others and how humans might be affected by rocks.
I think this book would be a great anchor text to hook students and I wanted to ensure that there was at least one selection of fiction in the curation.
Reference:
Pilutti, Deb. Old Rock (Is Not Boring). G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020.

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"A witty, engaging exploration of deep time . . . This picture book rocks!" - Kirkus, "This is a wonderful story about mistaken assumptions, and taking the time to listen to a variety of perspectives and experiences. Part scientific history, part storytelling, Old Rock is content with his lot in life, and Old Rock is not boring! This is a brilliant book for school and public libraries and one that children will be drawn to." - School Library Journal, starred review

"Pilutti puts a smile and wide eyes on the rock and places it among an increasingly fascinated animal audience in a set of simply drawn, usually idyllic cartoon scenes. 'They are not bored,' she concludes, nor will younger readers and listeners be once they realize that every rock they see has a similar story to tell." - Booklist
"After Hummingbird, Spotted Beetle, and Tall Pine regale Old Rock with tales of their adventures, Old Rock relays a rich history in which he was shot from a volcano, hid dinosaurs from predators, survived an ice age, traveled frozen in a glacier, and rolled onto plains populated with mastodons. This readaloud will put any of Grandpa's long-winded stories into perspective, as Old Rock really does have some valuable tales to offer." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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Old Rock (is not boring) by Deb Pilutti: 9780525518181 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

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"A witty, engaging exploration of deep time . . . This picture book rocks!" - Kirkus, "This is a wonderful story about mistaken assumptions, and taking the time to listen to a variety of perspectives and experiences. Part scientific history, part storytelling, Old Rock is content with his lot in life, and Old Rock is not boring!

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This website is by a Montessori teacher who reviews children's education equipment, reads short stories and blogs about what questions might arise when working with rocks and minerals. There are various jumping off points in her section on rocks and minerals: how to differentiate different types of rocks, how they are formed, about rockhounding, and how to identify minerals. Students will find the information clear and succinct, well categorized to help with discovery.
Reference:
Rocksforkids.com. (2021). Retrieved July 19, 2021 from https://www.rocksforkids.com/category/rocks-and-minerals/

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Rocks, also known as stones, are natural substances that are solid aggregates of several minerals. For instance, granite, which is ...

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This book is filled with hundreds of colourful images with factual information, specific to rocks and minerals. It is non-fiction and has 64 pages. It's included because of it's eye-catching pictures and easy to read and explore format. Students will be drawn to the real photographs that show the detail in each specimen. This book will appeal to a diverse level of readers for both the illustrative content and the facts within the text. Seeing the rock samples, students can refer back to the guiding question and infer their initial thoughts with this book.
Reference:
Pellant, C & Symes, R. Rocks and Minerals. DK Publishing, 2000.

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Rock Collecting with Kids: An introduction to Geology

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Rock Collecting with Kids: An introduction to Geology

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Written by Dan R. Lynch, this book relates to what most children do (or have done) at one point: collect rocks. Here, we given a field guide to what we have likely never thought about in rocks. He begins with basic geology, where rocks come from and how they change over time and provides helpful tips on how to identify rocks and minerals in the field. This resource has been chosen to support the personal and curious nature of students through 144 pages of photographs and collecting tips.
Reference:
Lynch, Dan R. Rock Collecting with Kids: An Introduction to Geology. Adventure Publications, 2018.

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Rock Collecting for Kids: An Introduction to Geology (Simple Introductions to Science)

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Rock Collecting for Kids: An Introduction to Geology (Simple Introductions to Science) [Lynch, Dan R.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Rock Collecting for Kids: An Introduction to Geology (Simple Introductions to Science)

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Oxford University Museum of Natural History GAME!

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Oxford University Museum of Natural History GAME!

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An interactive website to inform students about the rock cycle through a personified rock named "Rocky" and then a game to put their learning to the test, in two different levels. This website was chosen as it is easy to navigate, has succinct instruction and students will enjoy playing and learning.
Reference:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The Learning Zone | Rocks. 2006. http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/rocks/index.htm. Accessed 20 July 2021.

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This resource has been included in order for teachers to customize a digital field trip in a 20, 30 or 45 minute session through the Royal BC Museum. By contacting Liz Crocker, the teaching team can specify the format and content of the field trip. The virtual field trips are inquiry-based, staff led and has a further option to include a subject matter expert. The opportunities are great to tailor the big ideas and inquiry questions to the unit we are studying.
Reference:
Royal BC Museum. "Digital Field Trips". https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/learn/outreach/online/digital-field-trips. Accessed 20 July 2021

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Royal BC Museum and Archives | Victoria, BC, Canada

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NEW! April to June 2021

Join us digitally this year for field trip season. Connect with a museum educator in one of our galleries for a 20 minute digital dive! Eight subjects to choose from.

Wednesdays to Fridays, depending on staff availability, from April to June 2021. Each session will not exceed 20 minutes.

Choose from these Museum Snapshot themes:

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NEW! April to June 2021 Join us digitally this year for field trip season. Connect with a museum educator in one of our galleries for a 20 minute digital dive! Eight subjects to choose from. Wednesdays to Fridays, depending on staff availability, from April to June 2021.

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This dynamic and highly appealing page offers a way for students to guide themselves through information at their own pace, based on their own interests. Maybe students would like to investigate how meteorites or fossils influence our lives, or maybe they have a specific rock or mineral that they'd like to learn more about. This webpage allows students to stay in one virtual room to look around or continue until something piques their interest. Accessible for all students, this page offers credible, reliable and authentic information surrounding our essential question.
Reference:
Google Arts and Culture. "Rocks, Minerals, Gems". Google Expeditions by ePublishing Partners. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/rocks-minerals-gems/PwUxuXextWQFpA. Accessed 20 July, 2021.

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Earth is one of the terrestrial planets. That means it's basically rock, formed from a variety of minerals in a variety of ways. Rocks can be useful, rocks can tell us about the past, and some rocks are just plain beautiful. Join this Expedition to explore the world of minerals.

This story was created for the Google Expeditions project by ePublishing Partners, now available on Google Arts & Culture

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Rocks, Minerals, Gems - Google Arts & Culture

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Earth is one of the terrestrial planets. That means it's basically rock, formed from a variety of minerals in a variety of ways. Rocks can be useful, rocks can tell us about the past, and some rocks are just plain beautiful. Join this Expedition to explore the world of minerals.

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Royal Ontario Museum Kids Show - The one about crystals, minerals and rocks

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Royal Ontario Museum Kids Show - The one about crystals, minerals and rocks

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A casual, personable and educational video of about 30 minutes covering crystals, minerals and rocks and their uses. Put together by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROMKids Show), host Kieron discusses with special guest mineralogist Veronica Di Cecco. Students will want to try making their own sugar crystals but also will have an further understanding of what use we have for minerals in our everyday lives.
Reference:
ROMKids Show. "The One About Crystals, Minerals and Rocks". YouTube. 7 April 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fGQ4VP-mfI&t=438s. Accessed 20 July, 2021.

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ROMKids Show: The One About Crystals, Minerals, and Rocks

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Students will use key words to do guided research using World Book Online DISCOVER or STUDENT. Key words such as rocks, minerals, gems, geology. Based on the results, students will select their best 3 findings to use for further reading. exploration and information gathering.
Students in Burnaby require log in information "bbycascade", password "search".
Reference:
https://learn.burnabyschools.ca/index.php/staff-resources/elementary-web-resources.
Sample retrieval - "Rock." World Book Discover, World Book, 2021,
www.worldbookonline.com/wbdiscover/article?id=ar831857. Accessed 21 July 2021.

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a comprehensive suite of e-learning resources designed for all ages and abilities with articles

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A comprehensive suite of e-learning resources designed for all ages and abilities with articles, videos, educator tools, eBooks, research guides and more.

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Let's get started on our work with rocks and minerals! We are focusing on the Grade 5 Science topic of how earth materials change as they move through the rock cycle. This curation will provide us (teacher and teacher-librarian team) with a starting point of resources to use for our inquiry.

A few guiding questions that can help us begin are:
"How do rocks and minerals influence our lives?"
"How do we interact with water, rocks, minerals, soil and plants?"
"How can we act as stewards of our environment?"

Are there other questions that might work? Our library has lots of resources, as does the District Library Resource Centre (DLRC). Let me know how I can support you in your inquiry!
~Mrs. Bogunovic

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Students create a model of the rock cycle using wax crayons.

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This activity is for students to understand the rock cycle by creating a model from crayons. Students will learn the three types of rocks formed through the rock cycle. Sedimentary rocks. Metamorphic rocks and Igneous rocks. Students will identify some rocks at each part of the cycle.

This is a lab that a class of fourth grade students of 30 can conduct. The will need to have some understanding of the rock cycle and the vocabulary used when talking about rocks and the rock cycle. The activity needs about an hour and needs to be near a heat source.

This lesson is intended to support prior teaching of the rock cycle. Therefore, the intended time is two 45 min teaching period. The first being the background and vocabulary and the second being the activity. After describing the cycle using the attached vocabulary sheets and drawing it into a science notebook, the second lesson will give a hands-on learning of the rock cycle. A description of the activity and the vocabulary sheets can be found at http://mjksciteachingideas.com/rocks.html.

To gain an idea of how the rock cycle works, the world rock tour that began in Hawaii might end in east Greenland. Millions of years ago there, magma deep inside the Earth forced its way into another rock and solidified. This created an igneous rock. Then, intense pressure in the Earth caused the rock to up-heave, fold, and crumple, until it became an entirely new rock: a metamorphic rock. That new rock now makes up a mountain formation in Greenland.
And the rock cycle continues today. Everyday, little pieces of the mountain rock are worn away by water and wind. Those pieces collect somewhere and are compressed into new sedimentary rocks, which will continue to change and reenter the cycle as different metamorphic rocks or as melted material that can form new igneous rock. Then the process will begin all over again.

Igneous rocks are created when molten material such as magma (within the Earth) or lava (on the surface) cools and hardens. The hot material crystallizes into different minerals. The properties and sizes of the various crystals depend on the magma's composition and its rate of cooling. Examples of Igneous rocks: Granite, Obsidian, Basalt, Pumice, Andesite, Diorite, and Rhyolite

Sedimentary rocks are made up of sediments eroded from igneous, metamorphic, other sedimentary rocks, and even the remains of dead plants and animals. These materials are deposited in layers, or strata, and then are squeezed and compressed into rock. Most fossils are found in sedimentary rocks. Examples of Sedimentary rocks: Sandstone, Shale, Conglomerate, Limestone, Chert, Coal, and Gypsum

Metamorphic rocks are produced when sedimentary or igneous rocks are transformed by heat and/or pressure. The word "metamorphic" comes from the Greek language, which means "to change form." Examples of Metamorphic rocks: Marble, Slate, Quartzite, Schist, and Gneiss

Activity:
Have students use wax crayons, which will be taken apart and put back together for a simulation of the entire rock cycle.
The whole crayon represents an Igneous rock. To show Weathering: shave the crayons. Then Erosion occurs so pick up the crayon shavings and move them. The shavings (rock pieces) stop moving in various places this is called Deposition. One place rock pieces can be deposited is underground where compaction occurs. To show this put the crayon shavings onto some aluminum foil and fold into a packet.
Compaction forms Sedimentary Rocks: put packet between your hands and apply light pressure. Add heat and pressure to form Metamorphic Rocks: put packet between your hands and apply heavy pressure.
Melting and cooling brings us back to the form of an Igneous Rocks: melt the compressed crayon shavings. You can do this by placing the foil packet on an electric griddle. You can then pour the melted crayon over ice cubes to form "pumice," or into ice water to form "obsidian," or over warm or hot water to form an Igneous rocks, such as "diorite" and granite."

I would then have students go back to the rock cycle diagram in their notebooks and add any new learning. I would have them use their vocabulary sheets and glue them into their notebook matching the correct definition to each word.
vocabulary sheet for the rock cycle (Acrobat (PDF) 7kB Aug3 09)

As a safety guideline with the heating of the packets and then pouring them into the different cups - I let the students choose their outcome for their rock cycle and then I do the pouring for them. It is helpful to have extra hands in the room for this reason.

This activity has only been done in a small group and the assessment was done through a question/answer as we moved through the activity. In a larger group situation, I would use the science notebook and vocabulary sheets to assess the students learning of the rock cycle.

4.2.1.2.2 - Matter changes as it is heated and cooled
4.3.1.3.1 - Earth structure and its formation

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This activity is for students to understand the rock cycle by creating a model from crayons. Students will learn the three types of rocks formed through the rock cycle. Sedimentary rocks. Metamorphic rocks and Igneous rocks. Students will identify some rocks at each part of the cycle.

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Rusty Rocks activities to understand erosion

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Rusty Rocks activities to understand erosion