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Edible Rock Science

9/10/2014

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I am always on the lookout for ways to make our homeschool lessons fun and exciting.  I came across this idea as we were studying rock formations and rock layers in the earth.  We did some core sampling to learn how scientists can see layers of rock in the earth and make summations about how they were formed.  We first "core" sampled our unknown "earth" layers and then cut cross sections of them.  

Our "Earth" was candy bars and when we used a straw to take core samples of snickers bars, zero bars, and Take 5 we learned that each core sample can look different.  We then cut cross sections of the candy bars and wrote scientific expositories of what kinds of rocks we saw (ie nougat was likened to magma and peanuts were like boulders).  I'd say we had a fun science day and even better was that we ate the core samples...a treat in itself!

I wish I had learned science this way, I think I would have enjoyed science much more.
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Here is the cross section of our "unknown" sample (a Zero bar).  Pretty neat, huh?
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