Recently, we made sand slides in class. Each student made their own slide of sand from Florida, Arizona, Cape Cod, and New Mexico. We looked closely at each slide under the microscope and compared them. We talked about our observations and findings, then recorded them. We know know why sand from the desert in Arizona […]

Last week, Mr.P., the father of Myles, visited our class. He is a geologist and shared some of his expertise and special rocks with us. He also shared a color-coded map from Arizona. It showed how some rocks are much older than others in the area. Some of our favorites were the “colored map”, the […]