Saturday, May 20, 2017
'Quake City' and 'Rock On!'
Last Tuesday we traveled by bus to the inner city to experience the science behind earthquakes at 'Quake City' and then walked to the Canterbury Museum to 'Rock On' and learnt about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. This was part of our geology based inquiry called 'Rocks Talk' which is all about land formations and their causes. It was extremely informative and interesting. We really enjoyed ourselves and the learning!
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I really enjoyed going to the city I loved learning about the type's of rocks like metamorphic,igneous,and sedimentary. I loved looking at the rocks with magnifying glasses and doing the flow diagram it was a Awesome trip!!!
ReplyDeleteGrace
I had so much fun and I learned a lot,like how minerals diamonds and all are made.I loved that time when we had to find out which rock are which with the magnifying glass.Hopefully everyone enjoyed it because that was a epic trip!!!!
ReplyDeleteAditya
That trip was awesome! It was so much fun to learn about rocks and earthquakes! It was interesting seeing how Diamonds can be made out of TREES! I loved seeing what the rocks were they were either metamorphic, sedimentary or igneous. Lots of our groups were metamorphic, I think. Ohhh how I wish I could do it again! So cool!
ReplyDelete(Emma)
it was amazing going to quake city and the museum it was heaps of fun and I learned a lot learnt different types of rock igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. it looked like everyone was having so much fun and enjoying them selves
ReplyDeleteThomas
That rock on trip was really amazing not only because we got to leave the school ;) but also because it taught me a LOT and was extremely fun and interesting! My most favorite part was the amethyst but that's just because I'm crazy about the color purple!!! ;).
ReplyDeleteAwesome trip and thanks again for the hard work that you put into it.
Ron.
I really liked the trip because we got to learn about rocks and we got to look at earthquakes. I liked touching the rocks and also the amethyst.I searched up right now most amethyst found in Christchurch museum and I saw my hand touching all the amethyst. I loved our trip it was so much fun. Thanks for giving your time to go on the trip with us thank you again.
ReplyDeleteI loved the trip, especially learning about the rocks like how it is made what type of rocks are there and much more.I remember when we got into groups and we had to find out which rocks are in those 3 groups which are metamorphic,sedimentary and igneous.In our class we got some rocks and we tested them like if it could be scratched by a nail or coin and we had to record it, also we got some vinegar and we put some on the top of the rock to see the reaction.That was REALLY FUN!!!hopefully we can do something like that again.
ReplyDeleteAditya:) ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ