Monday, October 27, 2008

Discovering Minerals

Our most recent science lesson, from Rocks and Minerals Unit, was called "Discovering Minerals". Our science groups were given three minerals, feldspar, quartz, and galena.



We used our magnifing classes to look at each mineral and then we wrote notes describing what we saw.

Next, we looked at our twelve rock samples and predicted which rocks might have tiny pieces of these minerals in them.

Galena Mineral Prediction

The following number of students from our class think that the mineral Galena is in the following rocks. # of students / groups:

  • Granite 2
  • Gneiss 3
  • Limestone 1
  • Shale 1
  • Sandstone 1
  • Obsidian 1
  • Basalt 1
  • Slate 2
  • Marble 2
  • Schist 3

Feldspar Mineral Predictions

The following number of students from room 206 at Pennell think that the mineral Feldspar is in the following rocks.

6 students/groups think feldspar is in granite.

1 student/group think feldspar is in gneiss.

1 student/group think feldspar is in conglomerate.

1 student/group think feldspar is in shale.

Quartz Mineral Prediction

My classmates and I think that the mineral quartz is in the following rocks:

1 student/group think quartz is in limestone.

5 students/groups think quartz is in obsidian.

1 student / group think quartz is in pumice.

7 students / groups think quartz is in marble.

2 students/ groups think quartz

After more investigation, we will let you know how close our predictions were.

22 comments:

maddie said...
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aps said...

Learning about rocks and minerals was one of the most fun science lesson i ever learned!

maddie said...

the pictures on this blog or awsome.i love to learn about rocks and minerals.

nathan said...

We have learned lots of things about minerals. Like if you boil a lava rock it turns into lava.

skateboard said...

I love learning about rocks and minerals.

livi said...

I looooooooove the science lesson we are learning!!!!! Are there any other kinds minerals?

livilu said...

i love learning about Minerals,and Science. My mom mom's friend works at Notting Ham! Why do we were gloves for touching minerals?

aps said...

learning about rocks and minerals is fun.

Unknown said...

I love to learn about rocks and minerels because they are cool!also why do you have to were gloves while handelng minerals.

Donkey kong Bob said...

Learning about rocks and minerels is lots of fun.

aps said...

Rocks and minerals are very coooooooooooooooooooool!

Unknown said...

Hi ilove rocks

Unknown said...

I learned so much about feld spar i love minerals.

livilu said...

I love learning about minerals. Why do we have our own website and no other 3 grade class are doing it? Did you know that there is a lot of rocks in the whole entire world?

Anonymous said...

WOW! This is great information kids! Very interesting.

steelers said...

i like that we did slopes for science it was cool

steelers said...

i like that we did slopes it was the cool

steelers said...

i like that we did slopes it was the cool

ekstgo@gmail.com said...

I love the picks on the blog! And lrning about rocks and minerals too!

ekstgo@gmail.com said...

I like the science slope experiement.

ekstgo@gmail.com said...

I liked the science experiement with the water drops going down the slopes!! It was cool. I also liked the slope contest we did.

livi said...

do you know i love rocks and minereals?