Don´t stop now

After all this information, you are supposed to be an expert in this field.

But that´s not all! Go to the following web and subscribe in it (RSS link).

Blog about rocks and minerals.

Each month you should write in the comments box, the new information of this web site that you find interesting to share with your partners.

Take a walk!

Here we are going to use a social net to share our works.

Go to the web Edmodo , and sign up. In class I will give you the code to enrole in the Rocks group which I have created.

There we will made a new activity. You have to create a route in your neighborhood in which you show, with pictures, the fronts of the buildings and shops. You have to explain of what rock is made of. You have to create a file and uploading it in the Rock´s group.

The Rock Cycle

You know that exists a water cycle, but do you know that there is a rock cycle too?
 Is more complex than the water cycle but you couldn´t imagine the long life that a rock has.

Watch the following video which shows a song about the rock cycle, then write in your notebook a diagram which shows the way that a rock is formed and broken in a perpetual cycle. And the most important... LEARN IT! because the next day we are going to sing it in class!!

Rock cycle song

What are the 3 basic types of rocks?

Now we are going to know more about the types of rocks which exists on the earth and how the human beings have used them trough the history to the building of monuments.

 Go to the following webquest and do the exercises that are proposed
 Click here

What is a rock?

The first step is to know what we are talking about.

Read the information of this web page, then you have to write in the comments box your own definition of a rock.

 Click here

WELCOME!

Dear Students, welcome to the blog!!

Here I will upload some interesting material about the fascinating world of the Rocks.

 I hope you enjoy it.