Description

ScienceWiz Rocks: With ScienceWiz Rocks discover and explore different types of rock. This creative kit is packed full of fun science experiments. It includes project material and a full-colour activity book with step by step instruction to help kids build an understanding of geology. Create and erupt volcanoes, shatter metamorphic rocks and more with 18 fun, educational activities.

Smash, dissolve and create rocks! Enjoy exploring and manipulating the oldest objects on the planet – rocks. This comprehensive kit is packed full of projects to enthuse young geologists. It helps relate rocks to the history and structure of the planet.

There are 18 activities in all, and a 56-page experiment and teaching guide.

Build and slice open a model of the earth. Yes, with the included modelling materials construct the earth’s iron core, the mantle, and the thin outer crust. Cut the model in half and develop an understanding of the earth’s structure. Then, make a churning lava fountain and observe the force of the earth’s different density layers.

Create your own lava flows – runny to oozingly thick – and explore various volcanic rocks. Make your own pyroclastic eruptions to different degrees.

Connect the earth’s crust to real rocks and experiment with igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Deposit sediments to make your own rocks and compare them with actual rock formations. Make your own fossils. Learn about the humble origins of exotic metamorphic rocks such as marble.

Discover where rocks from the kit are found on the map. Grasp the crucial role that each rock type plays in the dynamic history of the planet. Discover which minerals form rocks and link the primary rock-forming minerals to rocks, volcanoes and geology.

Features

• Relate rocks to the history of the planet.

• It is written on the rocks!

• Connect the earth’s crust to real rocks.

• Uses exciting eruptive experiments to foster comprehension

• 20 Activities to do with ScienceWiz Rocks:

• Mould and slice open a model of the earth.

• Create a lava fountain to explore density.

• Spew your own volcano

• Make your own pyroclastic eruptions

• Discover which rocks will float and which will burn

• Identify, break & display volcanic rocks

• Sediment your own sedimentary rocks

• Acid test rocks

• Explore metamorphic rocks

• Form fossils

Recommended Age

Age: 8+

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