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Lesson Plan

You Rock! – Categorizing Rocks by Their Attributes

Subject Science
Grades K-2

Introduction

Rough, smooth, flat, brown. These words are all attributes you could use to describe a rock. In this lesson students will be going on a rock hunt as they learn about describing rocks using attributes.

Learning Objectives

(2-PS1-1 Matter and Its Interactions) Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
Summarize the physical properties of Earth materials, including rocks, minerals, soils, and water that make them useful in different ways.

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