A GRIDDLE EARTH:culinary genesis in the classroom
This is a fun activity involves pancake making and observing heating and cooling. This simple experiment suggests that the internal forces of the earth result from its unequal heating and cooling. (Elementary)

Rock Cycle Lab: This is a fun, hands-on rock cycle lab using very basic materials to help students understand the processes that form rocks.(Elementary)

Suger Cube Karst: This is a very simple model of karst formations for younger kids. The purpose of this activity is to explore the way water moves through a porous, soluble substance and to observe the development of pits and channels as the substance dissolves in water. (K-3)

Fast Crystallization : A fun and simple activity in which your students will watch four different salt crystals form. They will observe, record, and answer questions about the crystallization. (Intermediate)

If You Bit a Rock : Students get to observe and describe physical characteristics of a familiar model (candy bars) and apply to the unfamiliar (rocks). This is also an excellent activity to introduce geological terminology used in describing rocks. (Intermediate)

Real Fake Rocks : Students will become engaged in trying to make a rock look real. The rock-building process sharpens students' powers of observation and nudges them to compare their observations against a range of interpretations. (Grade 4-8)

Study of the Earth: Everything is made of something. From the MII, this unit provides fun activities and information in a printable PDF file. (K-4)

Towel Geology: To demonstrate a wide range of geologic principles and processes using GeoArt, which uses artistic approaches to promote critical thinking about geology and geologic processes. (K-12)

Toothpaste with a Twist : Allows students to produce a "marketable product" used by most people every day that is made with minerals. (Grade 4-12)

What Materials Are In My Car? : Fun activity to help students realize how much we depend on mining to build a car. (Grade 5-9)