Rocks and Minerals Scavenger Hunt + Free BOOM Cards

Three activities are included! This scavenger hunt introduces students to information and fun facts about Rocks and Minerals. Two new activities for use with the scavenger hunt cards have been added; a Rock Cycle Crossword Puzzle and a Rock Cycle Search and Find. A b/w version of the scavenger hunt cards is also now included.

How to Use this Product

1. Print the Rocks and Minerals Scavenger Hunt cards on card stock or brightly-colored paper and cut them apart along the dotted lines.

2. Make copies of the Rocks and Minerals Scavenger Hunt, Crossword Puzzle, or Search and Find questions worksheets. Each student needs a copy.

3. Place the Rocks and Minerals Scavenger Hunt cards around your classroom where students will be able to find them. You can put them on chairs, on the computer keyboard, on the back of your classroom door, on the sides of student desks, on the chalkboard, or wherever you like.

4. Students have to search the room and find all of the sentence cards to answer the questions. You can differentiate by having students work alone or with a classmate.

Table of Contents

* cover card for organizing and storing scavenger hunt

• student pages

• 20 colorful information cards

• Card 1 Rock Cycle
• Card 2 Weathering
• Card 3 Erosion
• Card 4 Soil/humus
• Card 5 Igneous rocks - examples/pictures
• Card 6 Sedimentary Rocks - examples/pictures
• Card 7 Metamorphic rocks - examples/pictures
• Card 8 Earth's crust
• Card 9- 10 information on igneous rocks
• Cards 11 - 12 information on sedimentary rocks
• Cards 13 - 14 information on metamorphic rocks
• Cards 15 - 17 minerals (includes information on ways to identify including crystal structure, hardness, luster, and density)
• Cards 18 - 19 gems
• Card 20 uses of rocks

• 20 black and white information cards

• crossword puzzle (with and w/o word bank for differentiation)

• search and find

• answer keys

More About This Product

With the Scavenger Hunt, the students complete it as part of a rotation during science or reading groups. I only have 4 or 5 students walking around with clipboards to locate the cards and write their answers. Students needing extra support can be paired with a partner for this activity. I have also done similar activities with the whole class or as a filler for early finishers, especially if you made the cards a little bit tricky to find. My students enjoy this activity.

A LINK TO FREE BOOM CARDS IS NOW INCLUDED!

This product features 9 digital task cards.

Each card has a picture of a different rock, 3 each igneous, 3 metamorphic, and 3 sedimentary. Students are asked to determine the new type of rock to be formed if a rock is subjected to melting and crystallization, heat and pressure, or weathering, erosion, and compaction. This is a click on the correct answer activity.

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Ann Fausnight ♥