Properties

= Properties of Rocks - by 309 = Color Size Texture Smell Shape

307 Property Thoughts .... We used our 5 senses! Los 5 sentidos! Our conclusion: using our 5 senses brings science ALIVE!!!!!!!!
 * SEEING-the color of the mock rock, the different things inside of it, the shape, the size
 * TOUCHING-TEXTURE, how it felt, bumpy and smooth, measuring the depth, circumference, area, diameter
 * SMELLINGa bit like plaster or glue
 * TASTINGwe cannot taste the mock rock!
 * HEARING-children talking, sharing about the mock rocks!

Some more PROPERTY thoughts from 307! Today, 11-13-08 we continued looking at properties! We received 4 "mystery" minerals and we did our best to observe the properties! These are the first REAL minerals Miss Davis has given us! We looked at size/shape/ color/texture/smell/ what it reminded us of in real life/we even weighed them using the balance! We even took all our individual property data and PUT IT TOGETHER in a class data-gram! We discovered that REAL GEOLOGISTS need to do a lot of extra DISCOVERING to find out about minerals! Looking at just color and surface qualities will not be enough!!!!!

Hey! How exciting! 307 used PROPERTY info AGAIN in the TAKE IT FOR GRANITE experiment! We thought about PROPERTIES again to think...which ones were ROCKS and which ones were MINERALS?????????? We are thinking that this property thing must be really important!

Room 309 agrees! Properties are pretty important.....we can see how geologists use them ALOT!