Chemical and Mechanical Weathering of Rock: Student Laboratory Kit
By: The Flinn Staff
Chemical and Mechanical Weathering of Rock Laboratory Kit for environmental science is a wide-ranging laboratory kit that involves weathering, geological changes, glacial changes, ice expansion, chemical weathering and more.
What impact do wind and rain or atmospheric conditions have on rocks? In this wide-ranging student lab kit, students will experiment and observe how mechanical weathering, geological changes, glacial changes, ice expansion, chemical weathering, oxidation and organic processes affect the rock specimens provided. Students observe which types of rocks are most affected by these processes and identify which chemicals and weathering processes have the greatest impact on rocks. Kit includes eight lab activities.
Complete for 30 students working in pairs.
Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Science & Engineering Practices
Planning and carrying out investigations Analyzing and interpreting data Developing and using models Constructing explanations and designing solutions
Disciplinary Core Ideas
MS-ESS2.A: Earth’s Materials and Systems MS-ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes HS-ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes
Crosscutting Concepts
Systems and system models Energy and matter Stability and change
Performance Expectations
MS-PS1-1: Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.
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