Geology ROCKS! More Homeschooling Fun. . .

We have been doing activities out of Geology Rocks! 50 Hands-On Activities to Explore the Earth by Cindy Blobaum. That title should be underlined and I don't know how to underline when posting in blogland. It's the English major in me that feels so BOTHERED to not be able to underline titles on my posts. It makes me feel like I am doing something wrong. If anyone out there knows how to do that - please enlighten me!

Anyway, we LOVE this book. It has really simple experiments that you can do with sutdd that you have lying around the house for the most part.

What do you think about Pangea? Here is Matthew trying to piece together the continents into one land mass.


And here's an activity using graham crackers and peanut butter to illustrate plate techtonics. The graham crackers are the plates, and you can shift them to make earthquakes, ridges, the beginnings of volacnoes, and mountains.

Some cuteness before we begin. . .


Matthew made a rift (a big crack in the ocean floor here):


And here are mountain ranges formed by two plates slowly being crumpled together (we wet the side of one graham cracker first):


Excuse the absence if shirts! We have had a bit of a heatwave over here the past few days. The big boys sleep in loft beds, so they have been going to bed only in their undies the past few days!