Lab-Aids Rock Cycle: an Interactive Exploration Through Geologic Time Kit 430

Help students understand the rock cycle as a series of ongoing geologic processes that continue to reshape the earth around us and beneath our feet. This activity engages the students through an active learning alternative to the traditional passive methods of studying the rock cycle. Students "become" bits of earth material moving through eight different earth process stages then analyze the unique pattern of their movement between these stages. They calculate geologic time and illustrate their pattern by constructing a rock cycle diagram based on their own experiences. Kit includes Teacher’s guide (1), student worksheets and guides (32), magma station card with spinner (1), sediments station card with spinner (1), materials made by living organisms station card with spinner (1), materials in solution station card with spinner (1), plutonic igneous rock station card with spinner (1), volcanic igneous rock station card with spinner (1), sedimentary rock station card with spinner (1), metamorphic rock station card with spinner (1).