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Interactive Rock Cycle Activities

Online games and activities make rock cycle lessons come alive, helping students retain information and apply concepts with more ease. Through animated games and hands-on science experiments, students can see a simulation of the rock cycle, gaining a knowledge and familiarity they can later apply to larger geologic and earth science concepts.
  1. Drag and Drop Rock Cycle Game

    • Oxford University runs a website devoted to the rock cycle, with a virtual tour of the rock cycle, as well as a rock cycle game which is playable at two levels. Players drag and drop illustrations of the rock cycle into a chart with components such as uplift, deposition, weathering and metamorphism.

    Review Game Zone

    • Review Game Zone has nine different games about rock cycles on its website. "Rock Cycle Ping Pong" requires players to answer a rock cycle question to earn their turn at virtual ping pong. "Wanna Be A Billionaire?" allows players to answer rock cycle questions for virtual money, imitating a television game show. The site also has rock cycle games based on sports themes such as baseball, basketball, golf and soccer. Hundreds of other game sets for the topics of rocks, minerals, weathering and erosion are available on this site.

    Rock Cycle Hangman

    • At Jefferson Lab's website, interactive hangman games have themes of weathering, erosion, deposition, layers of the earth, volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, minerals and soil. Choose from the many lesson sets available and it will create hangman games.

    "Who Am I? Rock Game"

    • The "Who Am I? Rock Game" is an interactive rock cycle game at the KidsGeo website. Photos of different rocks appear along with characteristics. Players then choose between igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock categories, naming the type of rock, ranging from obsidian to schist, slate and sandstone while the game keeps score of correct answers.

    "Where in the Rock Cycle is Taterman?"

    • Ohio University hosts an interactive game on its site called "Where in the Rock Cycle is Taterman?" This game is quite complex, with many characters and a plot which requires players to search through igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic and magma layers of rock to find an escaped convict.

    Interactive Activities

    • Honer Science has a list of interactive activities related to the rock cycle on its website. Rock identification activities, erosion quizzes and experiments to simulate chemical reactions with limestone and copper are among the resources on Honer's site.

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