Earth Science K–8 · Grade 3 · Ages 8–9

Grade 3 Earth Science: Rocks, Minerals and Fossils

A year of true stories from under our feet, from Friedrich Mohs ranking minerals by hardness and Michelangelo carving David out of a block of Carrara marble to Cope and Marsh racing to dig dinosaurs in the American West, a fish caught in stone with another fish in its mouth, upright fossil trees in the sea cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, and the twelve stones on the high priest’s breastplate, each one looked at closely, scratched, weighed and measured, and then tried at the kitchen table with salt crystals, chocolate, sand jars and plaster.