Students in 4th grade use microscopes to see the tiny rocks in sand.
A big thank you to all the parents who sent in sand from their trips and vacations. The students are enjoying analyzing all the samples. Using the microscopes, mineral resources, and web information about each beach, students are determining the make up of individual grains. As budding geologists, they are seeing sand not as one thing, but an entire rock collection in miniature form. Many of the sand samples will be on display for open house. See you then.
I really liked looking in the microscopes to look at the sand. I also liked seeing different sands that other people choose. I always want to do this project. Thank you for letting us do that. I can’t what until we do this again.
I only got to make a quick stop in the science lab at Open House – it looked like so many interesting things were going on in there! Wow!