Our fifth grade classes wrapped up our unit on the Earth by paying a visit to the Virginia Tech Museum of GeoSciences. The visit began with an explanation of the dinosaur model and other fossils that are housed in the museum.
Students were then divided into groups to explore the museum that is filled with rocks, gemstones, and fossils from all over the world. They were even able to put their hands inside dinosaur tracks, a fossil that was found in Virginia!
Students were able to look at different minerals under a black light to see how they react under certain conditions. They also dazzled the geologists with their knowledge of the Earth as they sorted real rocks into a model of the actual rock cycle!
To top it all off, they were sent on a scavenger hunt to find the many unique rocks, minerals and gems from around our planet!
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