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Candy Bar Geology — NASA JPL lessonScience · Earth & Space Science · Grades 4–8Lesson plan

Students learn about rocks by making connections between familiar candy bars and unfamiliar samples. Students will draw and describe the samples in everyday terms, pairing their observations with short descriptions that are in geologic field-note style. Materials Rock samples OR images of rocks Candy bars (see list in Management) Small plastic bags for samples Pen OR pencil Colored pencils Field Note Descriptions (docx) OR view on Google Docs Student worksheet (docx) OR view on Google Docs Mana

From NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL Education · Public domain (US Gov) · original source

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