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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Fun with rocks...

The Boy and I find all kinds of interesting ways to amuse ourselves while we wait for The Girl at various activities.  Today's installment of "what should we do today" is brought to you by last week's science lesson "properties of rocks".
 Here he is checking out good rocks to investigate.












Checking the "streak" of several different kinds of rocks--because each rock has it's own unique streak based upon what kind of mineral are in it...



 And my favorite..testing the strength and breaking point of various rocks by dropping them on the ground and on each other.













And finally explaining to me his conclusions about what type of rock (sedimentary, metamorphic, whatever) to me ...

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