Webelos/AOL Elective Adventure: Earth Rocks!

 

Webelos/AOL Elective Adventure: Earth Rocks!

1. Do the following:
   1. Explain the meaning of the word "geology."
   2. Explain why this kind of science is an important part of your world.
   3. Share with your family or with your den what you learned about the meaning of geology.
2. Look for different kinds of rocks or minerals while on a rock hunt with your family or your den.
3. Do the following:
   1. Identify the rocks you see on you rock hunt. Use the information in your handbook to determine which types of rocks you have collected.
   1. Identify rocks easy for kids
   2. Free Book on Texas rocks
   2. With a magnifying glass, take a closer look at your collection. Determine any differences between your specimens.
   3. Share what you see with your family or den.
4. Do the following:
   1. With your family or den, make a mineral test kit, and test rocks according to the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
   1. Don't let the Mohs scale scare, you, it's just a scale of what rocks can scratch other rocks. Identify a rock, use it to scratch and unidentified rock, if it scratches its lower, if it can get scratched it's higher... Really that's it...
   2. Record the results in your handbook.
5. With your family or den, identify on a road map of your state some geological features in your area.
1. Free state road maps
6. Do the following:
   1. Identify some of the geological building materials used in building your home.
   1. Sheet rock contain Gypsum
   2. Concrete contains Lime, Sand and Gravel
   3. Bricks contains Clay
   4. Nails and bolts are Iron and Zinc
   5. Wires are Copper.
   2. Identify some of the geological materials used around your community.
   3. Record the items you find.
7. Do either 7a or 7b: (not this is one or the other not both!) 
   1. Go on an outing with your family or den to one of the nearby locations you discovered on your state map, and record what you see as you look at the geographical surroundings. Share with your family or den while on this outing what you notice that might change this location in the future (wind, water, ice, drought, erosion).
   1. We are going to go to a near by cavern Natural Bridge Caverns or Innerspace Caverns (Innerspace is closer, but Natural bridge is much cooler)
   2. Do the following:
      1. With your family or your den, visit with a geologist or earth scientist and discover the many career fields that are included in the science of geology.
      2. Ask the geologist or earth scientist about the importance of fossils that are found.
      3. Ask the geologist or earth scientist what you can do to help preserve our natural resources.
8. Do at least one earth science demonstration or investigation with your den or with adult supervision, and explore geology in action.

Workbook for use with these requirements: PDF Format DOCX Format