Rocks & Minerals: Common Core Lessons & Activities

How to Use the Rock & Minerals - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Rock & Minerals - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Rock & Minerals - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What Are Minerals?: Reading Information Text
Properties of Minerals: Reading Informational Text
Common Minerals: Reading Informational Text
Crystal Structure: Primary Source Analysis
Testing Mineral Hardness: Applying Concepts G
Useful Minerals: Main Idea Organizer G
What Are Rocks?: Main Idea G
Rock Poetry: Point of View
Three Types of Rocks: Reading Informational Text
Three Types of Rocks: Graphic Organizer GO2
Name that Rock!: Applying Concepts G
Let s Dig Deeper: Igneous Rocks: Compare & Contrast
Let s Dig Deeper: Sedimentary Rocks: Graphical Analysis
Let s Dig Deeper: Metamorphic Rocks: Reading Informational Text
Rock Cycle: Graphic Organizer G
Let s Explore a Cave: Reading Informational Text
Spelunker Journal: Writing
Stalactites & Stalagmites: Comparison of Primary Sources
Rock & Mineral Words: Vocabulary GO10
Valuable Rocks Gems!: Reading Informational Text
Mining for Ore: Primary Source Analysis
Common Core Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizers