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Lessons, worksheets, identification guides and printables for teaching rocks and minerals in grades K–5. No student logins, no teacher dashboard, no account to create, no trial that expires.
We give away the teaching. The excavation is what we sell.
By topic
What rocks are
Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic — how each one forms and how a student can tell them apart by looking.
The rock cycle
Heat, pressure, weathering, time. The loop that turns one kind of rock into another.
Minerals and their properties
Hardness, lustre, streak, cleavage. The tests a child can actually run at a desk.
Identifying a specimen
Field-guide style keys and record sheets for working out what something is rather than being told.
Where rocks come from
Layers, landforms, and why the ground under your school looks the way it does.
Collecting
Sorting, labelling, storing and trading — the part students keep doing after the lesson ends.
How teachers use these
- Whole-class lessons in a rocks and minerals unit
- Science centres and small-group rotations
- Sub plans that need no explanation
- Enrichment and early-finisher work
- Review before an assessment
They work on their own. They work better with something real in a student's hand.
The excavation
Every resource here ends the same way: with a student who now knows what schist is and has never held any. The Rocks and Minerals Field Trip Kit fixes that — a six-compartment excavation block with a real specimen buried in each one, six matching specimen cards, and the tools to dig them out.
$10 per student. No minimum. Grades K–5.
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New resources are added regularly. If there's something you need for a rocks and minerals unit and it isn't here yet, email info@excavatingadventures.com and we'll build it.