Geology Grades 1-3

Geology covers these concepts:

• Earth has layers
• 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.

A variety of engaging activities present the concepts in ways that students can understand. Each concept presented includes:

• teacher directions for lessons
• reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigations