From the
time she was old enough to pick one up; my daughter has been a rock
collector. No matter where we went we would have rocks on the
return trip. Sometimes the rock would be
gravel from the parking lot – no matter, the rock was interesting or cool or
pretty and she collected it. When we got
ready to move, we found containers full of rocks – jars, boxes, bags, etc. As she got older she continued to be
interested in rocks but expanded that interest to the broader discipline of
geology and after learning about the Earth expanded again to include the
planets.
Earth
and Space science is an exciting part of learning for middle school and
high school students. It offers both the
tangible (rocks to hold in your hand) and the intangible (imaginings of the
possible planets out there orbiting an alien sun). You can make theory real when almost any
creek bed can show the layers of soil eroded by water. A lunar eclipse can be watched and studied
on a clear night almost anywhere.
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