Grade 4/5 Science: Rocks and Minerals Project

Grade 4/5 Science: Rocks and Minerals Project

My goal this year was to include more opportunities for students to work collaboratively and develop their critical thinking skills at the same time.  The example I have chosen for my artifact is an invitation I created for our final Science unit, Rocks and Minerals.  I included this invitation in my centers and this allowed students a great deal of time to explore and examine the station independently. The students loved it and it was a very popular place in our classroom! I created the invitation by gathering the rocks and minerals books and materials that we had in our school. Students were then given opportunity just to explore the rocks and minerals station before we even began the unit. Once we began the unit students began to add materials to the exploration station in the classroom.