Rock Types & the Rock Cycle
Three families of rock, how each forms, and how they turn into one another.
What this lesson covers
Rock Types & the Rock Cycle is a 10-part Class 6 Science lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.
How it begins
All rocks belong to one of three groups, defined by how they formed: Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.
The 10 parts
- Three types of rock
- Igneous rock
- Sedimentary rock
- Metamorphic rock
- Weathering and erosion
- The rock cycle
- Reading a rock
- Where marks go
- What to remember
- Watch one worked through
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