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This project will be the key to helping my students experience tangible science lessons and make them less abstract. This will help the students concrete their learning and it will also foster higher level thinking for future scaffolding for their other science lessons. Since our school is in a low income housing area, many students are not exposed to basic activities or events that many other students get to experience. The fossil collections and igneous/metamorphic/sedimentary rock samples (lodestone, calcite, magnetite, basalt, scoria, pumice, coal, slate, shale, gneiss, gypsum, conglomerate, granite, obsidian, marble, sulfur, hematite, and schist. These samples will allow the students to see the differences in specific classifications that make it unique. When divided into groups, the students will take magnifying glasses and study each rock type and categorize them. This will also help foster discussion among their groups and partner learning. Not only will this help my class, but our grade level as well. My students will be able to use these tools to teach other students what they have learned. Real learning has occurred, when it can be taught to someone else.

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This project will be the key to helping my students experience tangible science lessons and make them less abstract. This will help the students concrete their learning and it will also foster higher level thinking for future scaffolding for their other science lessons. Since our school is in a low income housing area, many students are not exposed to basic activities or events that many other students get to experience. The fossil collections and igneous/metamorphic/sedimentary rock samples (lodestone, calcite, magnetite, basalt, scoria, pumice, coal, slate, shale, gneiss, gypsum, conglomerate, granite, obsidian, marble, sulfur, hematite, and schist. These samples will allow the students to see the differences in specific classifications that make it unique. When divided into groups, the students will take magnifying glasses and study each rock type and categorize them. This will also help foster discussion among their groups and partner learning. Not only will this help my class, but our grade level as well. My students will be able to use these tools to teach other students what they have learned. Real learning has occurred, when it can be taught to someone else.

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