This week we started our new unit of Rocks and Minerals in Science.
The past couple days we spent time talking about what we already know and what we'd like to learn. We watched a movie that also introduced us to some new rocks and minerals vocabulary. Today we do a cool activity/experiment that made us learn more about how rocks and minerals are different from one another.
During the activity, Ms.Virji gave each student 2 cookies (one with chocolate chips and another with raisins) We compared the cookies to rocks. The chocolate chip cookie was bumpy, rough and round - kind of like rocks. The raisin cookie was smooth and soft - kind of like rocks too! We learned that the chocolate chips and raisins are like the minerals - they help to form the entire cookie - which is the rock. Take a look at some of the pictures to understand how we did this activity.
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| We started with 2 cookies and some picks to help break our cookies. |
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| We started breaking apart the cookie and separated the minerals (raisins and chocolate chips) from the cookie. |
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| The final product looked like this: all the minerals were seperated from the rock! |
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| We even used magnifying glasses to help us look more clearly at the formation of our rock (cookie) and minerals (chocolate chips and raisins!) |
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