Kinds of Rocks Mini Unit and Notebooking Pages
Use this Kinds of Rocks Mini Unit and Notebooking printables when your elementary and middle school students are learning about the different types of rocks, their properties, and how rocks are formed.
These Rocks notebooking pages are a handy resource for your kids’ different types of writing assignments across multiple subjects like geology, geography, social science, and language arts.
With these rocks notebooking pages, your kids can write about the characteristics of various rocks. Or they can write facts about a specific rock and its uses, where it’s found in the world, and what minerals are often attached to that type of rock.
These notebooking pages are generally for students working at the 2nd to 8th grade levels.
They could even use the rock printables to explain the rock cycle of how rocks are formed over time.
These notebooking printables even work well for handwriting practice and for narration and grammar exercises.
This Kinds of Rocks mini unit is great for an Earth Day or geology lesson.
The Rocks printables include a library list and online vetted resources to make a mini unit.
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Recommended Resources for Your Study of Rocks
Library List
Select a few of these books
Ultimate Rockopedia: The Most Complete Rocks & Minerals Reference Ever by Steve Tomaceck
Rocks, Gems, and Minerals: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide by Paul R. Shaffer
Rocks, Fossils & Arrowheads (Take Along Guides) by Laura Evert
Rocks and Minerals (DK Eyewitness)
Online Resources
How to Identify a Rock from Science Mom
The Rock Cycle from Mr. Bradley–Learning Made Fun
DK Find Out! Rocks and Minerals
Rocks Notebooking Printables
The rocks notebooking pages come in 3 different levels to fit all of your students’ needs. There’s a large elementary lined one, a smaller elementary lined one, and a regular lined one.
Each level of notebooking page also comes in a color graphic, with a photo, and in black/white in case you are trying to save on printer ink costs. There are 12 pages total.
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