Rock Classification

ACF Lesson Plan: How Was Coal Formed?  (M)
From the American Coal Foundation. Students identify the dates and order of key time frames of geologic history and learn about when and how coal was formed. Grade Level: 5-8 Linked from Wayback Archives

ACF Lesson Plan: Coal Supply and Demand  (M)
Students learn about the supply and demand of natural resources. Grades 5-6. From the American Coal Foundation and linked through Wayback Archives

ACF Lesson Plan: Cookie Mining  (Y,M)
Students learn the costs associated with the mining process of coal by using chocolate chip cookies and toothpicks. Grade Level: 3-8. From the American Coal Foundation and linked through Wayback Archives

ACF Lesson Plan: Generating Electricity From Coal  (M)
Lesson plan for kids to explore the process of generating electricity from coal. Students are asked to think about new ways to use coal to create electricity. Grades 6-8. From the American Coal Foundation and linked through Wayback Archives

ACF Lesson Plan: Coal Formation  (Y,M)
Students conduct a simulation of the formation of coal and practice the essential laboratory skills of hypothesizing, observing, and explaining their findings. Grade Level: K-6. From the American Coal Foundation and linked through Wayback Archives

ACF Lesson Plan: Coal Flowers: A Historic Craft  (Y,M)
This historic craft among coal mining families allows students to watch the crystallization process in making coal flowers. Grades K-8. From the American Coal Foundation and linked through Wayback Archives

ACF Lesson Plan: Transporting Coal  (Y,M)
Students examine national railway, river, and highway routes that might transport coal and plan routes for moving coal from one area to another. Grade Range: 3-8. From the American Coal Foundation and linked through Wayback Archives

Coal Camps and Mining Towns  (M)
Students learn history through researching coal mining towns. From the American Coal Foundation and linked through Wayback Archives

History of Coal in the U.S.  (O)
Lesson plan for students to study history U.S. coal mining and research the policies of coal-dependent companies. Grades 9-12. From the American Coal Foundation and linked through Wayback Archives

Google Earth  (Y,M,O,T)
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

RockHoundKids.com  (Y)
The place for kids who love rocks.

Indentify Rock Types Game  (Y,M)
This game was designed to help students learn about rock types. From Kids Geo.com

Rocks and soils  (Y,M)
From BBC.CO.UK Has games, projects and lessons about rocks and soil.

Virtual Field Trips in Geoscience  (Y,M,O,T)
From The Virtual Geosciences Professor's Course Resources

MineralTown.com  (Y,M,O,T)
Rocks, mineral and fossil collecting information with articles, photos, videos, web directory, search engine and free classified ads.

The First Collection - Minerals  (Y,M,O,T)
A quick reference for beginning collectors to include the nine structure and chemical composition classifications of a collection.

Kids Geo. com  (Y,M)
A Study of The Earth And Her People. Learn about Geology and Geography For Kids with KidsGeo.com.

Curriculum Center - Magnetism  (M,O,T)
Activities, puzzles and project ideas to boost the study of Magnetism.

Virtual and On-line Geologic Field Trip Guides  (Y,M,O,T)
Virtual Field Trip Guides for the United States and Canada

Geology Online lesson plans  (Y,M,O,T)
Lesson plans for K-12 teachers to integraste earth science and anthropology into lessons.

Science in a bag Lesson: Light and Crystals  (M)
To use hydro-gel crystals in a hands-on activity to study light refraction through two media. Also, to stimulate critical thinking. Upper Elementary and Middle School Age Children

You've Got to Be Cool to Make Igneous Rocks   (M)
Lesson plan for grades 7-9