by Jaimi Erickson | Feb 1, 2023 | activities
We can’t study geology and rocks without doing this fun, traditional activity of making and exploring a volcano. This is an iconic science activity for kids. All it takes is a few steps to make this science magic happen. Making and Exploring a Volcano: Geology for...
by Jaimi Erickson | Dec 27, 2022 | activities
Continuing with our unit study on Geology, we did some hands-on art. This rock sculpture art activity is a free and almost-one item activity. If you do not glue it together, it is part of our collection of one item activities. Rocks are so interesting to kids. Every...
by Jaimi Erickson | Sep 15, 2022 | activities
How many times have you gone on a walk or hike with your children and they find rocks that are just too special to leave behind? We can use those special rocks for this preschool counting and fine motor activity. My children have found treasured rocks on every walk...
by Jaimi Erickson | Aug 9, 2022 | activities
Anyone else have kids that have brought a rock collection into the house? Every time we go on a walk, the twins find that special rock that they just can not leave behind. Taking that inspiration, we incorporated a rock identification kit into our recent geology unity...
by Jaimi Erickson | Mar 9, 2022 | activities
As part of our hands-on geology unit, we read about the layers of the earth. This hands-on geology activity will teach kids about the rock cycle using playdough. We learned a bit about mining too. Initially this hands-on activity was to discover how the rock cycle...