For School Groups
- School Program
- Costs 13.00 per student
- Takes about 1.50 hours
- Designed for 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade and 7th grade
- Theme: Natural History, Connecticut, Natural Science
Description
Each child will build a display box to sort and test 6 (plus a mystery rock) rocks and minerals brought to the Museum from across Connecticut. Each sample will have different properties.
Every student will learn to use and will take home a hand lens and light.
Meets Connecticut Science Standards
- 3.3: Earth materials have different physical and chemical properties.
- 5.4: Humans have the capacity to build and use tools to advance the quality of their lives.
Meets Common Core Standards
- 4-ESS1: Earth's Place in the Universe
Meets Next Generation Science Standards
- 2-ESS1-1: Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly. ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth. Some events happen very quickly; others occur very slowly, over a time period much longer than one canobserve. (2-ESS1-1)
- 4-ESS1: Earth's Place in the Universe: 4-ESS1-1. Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
