Grade 4 Overall Expectations:
Assess the social and environmental impacts of human uses of rocks and minerals.
- Why We Need Minerals (ebook – WPL database)
- Earth’s Hidden Treasures (ebook – WPL database)
- Earth’s History Through Rocks series (ebook – Hoopla)
- Rocks (ebook – Hoopla)
- The Canadian Atlas: Rocks and Minerals (online resource – Canadian Geography)
Investigate, test, and compare the physical properties of rocks, and minerals.
- Collecting and Identifying Rocks (ebook – Hoopla)
- Geology Science Projects (online resource – Science Buddies)
- What is the Rock Cycle? (ebook – WPL database)
- Science Explorer: Rocks (ebook – Hoopla)
- The Rock Cycle (online resource – Scholastic Study Jams)
- Igneous Rocks (online resource – Scholastic Study Jams)
- Sedimentary Rocks (online resource – Scholastic Study Jams)
- Metamorphic Rocks (online resource – Scholastic Study Jams)
- Types of Rocks (evideo – YouTube)
- Let’s Learn About Rocks and Minerals (evideo – YouTube)
Demonstrate an understanding of the physical properties of rocks and minerals.
- Rocks and Minerals series (ebook – Hoopla)
- How Are Rocks Formed? (ebook – Hoopla)
- Geology Genius series (ebook – Hoopla)
- Look at Earth’s Rocks series (ebook – Hoopla)
- What Are Sedimentary Rocks? (ebook – WPL database)
- What Are Metamorphic Rocks? (ebook – WPL database)
- What Are Igneous Rocks? (ebook – WPL database)
- What Are Minerals? (ebook – WPL database)
- Rocks and Minerals (evideo – YouTube)