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Three main types of rock

In science today, we have been learning about the three different types of rock and how they are formed: sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic. We then organised the six rocks we learnt about last week and sorted them into these categories. Here are our class findings:

 

Science... Rocks!

In today's science lesson on rocks, we have been classifying different types of rocks using their properties. Here is an example of six types of rocks and their name based on the class sorting them using the descriptions:

 

 

Is it magnetic?

In science today, we took a variety of objects and sorted them into two piles: magnetic and non-magnetic. We determined that whilst not all metallic materials are magnetic, anything that is magnetic will be metallic. 

 

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