Children’s Fascination With the Natural World Outside the Classroom Create Reasons to Read and Write

Rocks: Children’s Fascination With the Natural World Outside the Classroom Create Reasons to Read and Write

Our study of rocks created compelling reasons for children to want to read and research; draw and write.

Children also draw and write to culminate studies about trees, stars, birds, animals, and insects.

We begin by learning about the layers of the earth and constructing a clay model using plastocene (an oil-based clay).

“Maybe I’ll be a geologist some day.”

Study includes:

Digging for fossils (Some rocks have all the fossils from thousands of years of layering.)
Learning about rocks and crystals
Growing crystals
Collecting rocks
Exploring the properties of rocks
Recording information in
My Rock Collection Book