Outline of Integrated Unit Activities

Centers

• Math: Everybody Needs a Rock
• Listening: Stone Soup
• Science: Basic Classification, Like and Different
• Writing: Write a story pretending you are a Geologist. What do you do?

Morning Work

• Styrofoam Earth: Write three layers of Earth and sentence about each
• Rock Painting: Write three sentences about the origin of your painted rock
• Pebble Necklace: Write about Stone Jewelry
• Sand Sculpting: Write a story about your sculpture
• Make a pebble mosaic: Write three sentences describing your pebble mosaic

Social Studies/Science

• Rock Lengend
• Rock ages
• Rock and Roll!
• The Name Game
• Fossil Fun!

Math Lessons

• Weigh In
• Graphing lengths and weights of rocks
• Pet Rock I- Centers
• Pet Rock II- Venn Diagram
• Stepping Stones

Math Tubs

• Pebbles as manipulatives with place-value charts
• Pebble stone patterns
• Pebble pyramids
• Greater than/less than game using pebbles and dinosaur jaws as manipulatives