To kickstart our Science topic, Year 3 took a journey throughout the school buildings and grounds to see where we could find different rocks and identify their uses. We talked thoroughly about the properties of rocks and discussed how the properties affected the use of the rocks. Continuing on using our knowledge of properties, we used a Carroll diagram to sort rocks based on their properties.
Year 3 have been learning about different types of rocks. Granular, crystallised and fossilised. We looked at the formation of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. The children were given an assortment of rocks and were asked to group the rocks according to their appearance. We then sorted the rocks correctly and the children were excited to see if their predictions were correct.
Fabulous categorisation of rocks, Year 3
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