At a glance
Geology is a three-visit project of 60 or 75 minutes for grades 3, 4, 5 and 7 that digs into the upper layers of the Earth’s crust: life underground, fossils, then rocks and minerals.
Students meet the earthworms that build the humus layer, 450-million-year-old fossils, then rocks such as basalt and metals such as gold. They learn the three great families of rocks and sort rocks and minerals by their properties.
Do you know what lies beneath our feet?
Your geologists grab their shovels to uncover the treasures hidden in the upper layers of the Earth’s crust.
Over 3 workshops, they find the mysterious earthworms that build the humus layer, then 450-million-year-old fossils, and finally rocks such as basalt and metals such as gold!
Knowledge that runs deep!
How it runs:
Visit 1: Life underground (60 or 75 minutes).
Visit 2: Fossils (60 or 75 minutes).
Visit 3: Rocks and minerals (60 or 75 minutes).
Learning goals (elementary)
- Know the three main families of rocks (sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic).
- Classify rocks and minerals by their properties.
- Explain what tectonic plates are and what the inside of the Earth is made of.
- Describe natural phenomena linked to rock (for example, erosion and melting).
- Describe the major stages in the evolution of living things and how fossils form.
- Tell a rock, a fossil and a mineral apart.
- Make a fossil imprint to take home.
- Describe how soil meets the basic needs of living things.
- Explain composting and recycling by nature’s decomposers (bacteria, fungi and insects).
