Identify Rocks With Kids: FREE Printable

This is a guest post from Teachbesideme.com

My kids are big rock collectors. They are bringing rocks home from places
all the time. They also find a lot in our yard to collect. We live in
the Rocky Mountains, so there are more than enough rock sot spare here!
 Since we love rocks so much, I thought it would be appropriate this moth
to share some fun things to help kids learn to identify rocks. While
my kids love collecting them, we have not learned to identify the different
kinds of rocks very much in our homeschool. But we are starting to and
it has been fun!
Today is the Poppins Book Nook and the theme is The Great Outdoors. The
book I chose to focus on this month is Let’s
Go Rock Collecting by Roma Gans and illustrated by Holly Keller.

This is a Reading
Rainbow book as well as a Let’s
Read and Find Out Science book. I love using both of these lists when
looking for quality books for my kids. I love this book because it is
fun and informational at the same time. Kids enjoy reading them, but they
are also learning as they do.

Let’s
Go Rock Collecting talks about the three different types of rocks
and how they were formed: Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic. It shows
great pictures and gives lots of examples to help kids understand. It
also talks about collecting rocks and how to take care of your collection.
My kids like that part because we are always trying to figure out what
to do with their collections. This book is a great beginner book for
kids who want to learn more about rocks.

Rock Identification Kit

 
I have a fun Rocks
and Minerals Collection kit that I found on Amazon to help my kids
learn even more about rocks. It came with over 150 pieces and 30 different
types of ricks and minerals to identify. There is an identification chart
to help kids learn them and sort them. It’s an awesome way to really learn
to identify rocks with kids!! My kids have been having so much fun with
it.

Geology.com is a wealth of information on different types of rocks
and how they are formed. I used their images to create a rock sorting
activity for kids. It has pictures and names of the different types of
rocks, then there is a sorting page to help kids sort the rocks by type.
 If you visit the Geology website, you can learn more about each rock
and how it is formed. If you don’t have different types of rocks available,
this is a great way to still be able to learn about them.

Learn to identify rocks with your kids.

Download a copy of the Rock Identification Activity for Kids!

Also, if your kids love to learn with music like mine do, check out this FREE science song about Rocks & Minerals. We love it!

Want another fun rock activity? I LOVE this Crayon Rock experiment from Momma Owl’s Lab.