Rocks Rock Activity Guide - Arizona Sonora Desert Museum printable pdf download

Rocks Rock Activity Guide - Arizona Sonora Desert Museum

Rocks Rock Activity Guide

Make a Fossil Rubbing

For Girl Scouts

Along the top of the low wall in front of the hidden

fossils, you can find examples of fossils that are great for

making rubbings. Use your pencil and this paper and make a

fossil rubbing in the space below.

Welcome Juniors! You can earn your Rocks Rock

badge by completing this guide. Visit the Earth

Sciences Cave and Ancient Arizona to find

answers to some of these rockin’ questions. As

you exit the cave, you’ll see an old mining car.

This is our Mine Dump. Start here!

1. Be a Rock Hound!

Rocks are like cookies. They need a mix of ingredients and

either heat or pressure to form them. Minerals are the

ingredients in rocks. At our mine dump, you can pick out one or

two minerals to take with you. Match them to the ones in the

outdoor glass case or inside the mineral gallery. What kind(s)

did you find?

_______________________ ______________________

2-3. Geo Hunt and Weathered or Not

As you stand at the mine dump, look into the canyon below.

What caused it to form? _________________________

Now look at the mountains around you. The mountains that

the Desert Museum sits in used to be part of a massive

volcano. 65 million years ago it erupted with 1,000 times the

Scouts’ Badge Discovery Class/Grounds Tour Activity Sheets

2008 ASDM

Scouts’ Badge Discovery Class/Grounds Tour Activity Sheets

2008 ASDM

Rocks Rock Activity Guide - Arizona Sonora Desert Museum