Learning about the Earth Author:Jo Ellen Moore Learning About the Earth helps you teach children about basic geology: the structure of the earth, how the surface changes, how rocks are formed. Whether they're coloring, cutting and pasting, matching, or just listening to you read a favorite story about geology, children will be involved with the subject on several levels. — Activities help chi... more »ldren practice skills in: observation, communication, making comparisons, ordering, and categorization. You get student activity sheets, teacher resource pages with ideas for special projects and literature references, and many reproducible pages of picture cards, fossil matching, and other templates.
Geology topics and concepts covered include: the Earth is round like a ball, round or flat, different ways to show the Earth, Who lives here?, rock is everywhere under our feet, rock hunt, make a sedimentary rock, make a fossil print, and more. Cute, yet accurate line art illustrations throughout. All 48 pages perforated for easy removal.« less