Rocks & Minerals Bundle

Introducing the Ultimate Rocks and Minerals Experience!

Embark on an educational journey with our meticulously curated bundle of 9 dynamic slideshows!

Our slideshows are thoughtfully designed to cater to every learning style, ensuring an engaging and comprehensive learning. With a minimum of 4 QR codes per slideshow, your students can enjoy interactive online activities to supplement and consolidate their learning!

Topics

• What are natural resources
• Renewable v/s nonrenewable natural resources
• Earth’s materials: soil, boulder, gravel, rocks, minerals, sand
• Definition of minerals + examples
• The 5 criteria for minerals
• Properties minerals: streak, lustre and hardness
• Moh’s scale
• Virtual field trips and online gallery
• Types of rocks: ingenious, sedimentary metamorphic
• Properties of rocks
• Videos, quizzes, online gallery
• Importance of rocks
• Earth’s process: definition and importance
• Weathering: Mechanical and chemical
• Weathering agents including: water, animals, human, rain, glaciers, carbon, oxygen, acid rain, lichens
• Erosion + agents of erosion including: ice, water, wind, gravity
• Deposition – deltas
• Heat and pressure
• Melting and cooling
• Quick revision of types of rocks
• Rock cycle processes: weathering and erosion, compacting and cementing, melting and cooling, heat and pressure
• Formation of metamorphic, sedimentary, igneous rocks
• Importance of the rock cycle
• What is a fossil
• Palaeontology
• Fossil record
• Body fossils and trace fossils
• The fossilization process
• Altered and unaltered fossilization
• Fossils and rock layers
• Canada’s natural resources
• Minerals and mining
• Fishery and wild life
• Energy resources
• Forests
• What is sustainability
• The 3 Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle
• Sustainability practices
• Elements of sustainability
• Environmental aspect, societal aspect, economic aspect
• Natural Resources & First Peoples
• Traditional Knowledge of Earth’s natural resources
• Involvement of youth
• Connection to land
• Spiritual significance
• Cultural Diversity in Resource Use
• Land as a teacher
• Sustainable practices: resource conservation, seasonal harvesting, respect for limits, community cooperation

Key features:

9 engaging slideshows

Comprehensive coverage

Captivating visuals

Concise notes

Interactive online activities with QR codes

Differentiated to meet the needs of different styles

Exercises and formula applications

Real-world connections

Teacher friendly/home school friendly

This bundle is everything you need to teach those topics!