This afternoon, Year 3 carried out a range of activities in order to help them identify and classify a range of rocks based on their physical properties. First, they carried out a sorting activity which required them to assign an assortment of rocks to the following categories: metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary.

They were then introduced to an identification flowchart, which they made use of in order to discover the names of the rocks they had grouped in the previous task, as well as to cross-reference with their groupings to ensure that they had assigned them to the correct categories.