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Edible model rocks
In this activity, students will learn about the three main types of Earth rocks and make edible analogues to help explain how they form. They will then use the ideas from this activity to investigate and suggest what some of the samples in the meteorite hunters boxes might be.
Curriculum links:
- Performing simple tests.
- Identifying and classifying.
- Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.
- Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties.
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