Year 3 visit Geoscience Australia

By Mrs Kate Beacroft, Junior School Teacher

Our Year 3 students travelled to Geoscience Australia for a hands-on experience to learn more about rocks as part of our 'Sharing the Planet' Unit of Inquiry.

Students explored metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks in the education centre, discovering how they are formed and what their properties are. The students learned how these properties make particular rocks and minerals suitable for certain uses. For Claudia, 3RB, the highlight was, “finding out different types of rocks and seeing what the purposes are”.

The students also went on a minerals scavenger hunt and even touched moon rock! Liam, 3KB, said, “I liked seeing all the different rocks and the variety of colours and shapes.”