Rocks and Minerals Vocabulary Activities and Word Wall

Need to increase your students' exposure and mastery of content-area vocabulary? Start by displaying a science word wall and using the included suggested word wall activities to help your students master their Properties of Rocks and Minerals vocabulary! Google Slides included!

With Vocabulary Match Up Mats, students have a mat of Rocks and Minerals vocabulary words and a set of definitions. Students leave the vocabulary word mat intact and cut apart the definitions. This encourages students to read each definition as they try to place the definitions on the mat with the correct term. As students practice their word knowledge again and again with these mats, their confidence and ability to define the terms grows!

The Rocks and Minerals study slips include the term, definition, and a related image. To use as an independent study tool, students can hide the term, read the definition, and guess the word OR hide the definition, view the word, and recite the definition. I’ve included suggested games to play using the study slips.

Included in Rocks and Minerals Vocabulary Mats:

✔ Rocks and Minerals Vocabulary Mat (18 terms)

✔ Rocks and Minerals Study Slips

✔ Suggested Games and Game Boards

✔ Directions for Preparing Vocabulary Mats and Study Slips

✔ Multiple Choice Quiz

✔ Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz

Included in Rocks and Minerals Vocabulary Word Wall:

✔ Rationale explaining the need and process for vocabulary instruction

✔ 4 pages of suggested activities to allow you to do more than just post your word wall cards on the wall

✔ Reduced versions of the word wall cards to make them easy to use for student activities

✔ 18 word wall cards

Terms include:

- rock

- mineral

- crystal

- sedimentary

- igneous

- metamorphic

- erosion

- geology

- magma

- streak

- luster

- cleavage

- hardness

- deposition

- fracture

- opaque

- translucent

- sediment

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