Rocks and Soils

In Science Year 3 have been studying Rocks and Soils. Today at the start of the lesson we practiced some retrieval questions about what we have learnt about Rocks and Soils so far.

In the main part of today's lesson, as scientists we investigated a number of different rocks and working together, we grouped them in different groups according to any criteria we chose. This is called classification. We then had to explain our decisions based on the appearance and properties of the rocks