Rocks from Utah!

Last week class 2-227 had a visitor during science class!  Julie Fry, Orla's mom, came and talked to the class about her trip to Arches National Park in Utah.  The park has more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches that have been made over time by rain!

Julie found some amazing rocks at Moab's Rock Shop and has kindly donated them to PS58's growing rock collection!  

Everyone liked the polished, colorful rocks!

The fossils were amazing!

And then we saw the geodes!

Everyone had their goggles on!

Orla cracked the Utah geode after a few good smashes with
the hammer!

Thank you so much for coming in Julie and sharing your experience at and photos of Arches National Park and the rocks you got at Moab's Rock Shop!

Rocks, Minerals, Fossils and Geodes!

What a fabulous surprise!  Orla (1-114) and Keavy's (4-333) mom, Julie, went on a trip to the Arches National Park (https://www.nps.gov/arch/index.htm) in Utah and brought back quite a collection of rocks, minerals and fossils for the science classroom! The rocks all came from Moab's Rock Shop  http://www.moabrockshop.com/.  

A beautiful sampling of rocks!

There is even petrified wood at the bottom of the photo.

Megalodon Shark Teeth!

Dinosaur bone fossils!

 Then, a few weeks later, what should arrive? A box of geodes: Moroccan snowballs, Mexican and Utah dugway.

So many geodes!

It was very hard to break open the geode on our tiled floor!  The next class we are trying to break it outside!

The inside of one of the geodes!

 Thank you so much Julie for this amazing addition to our science program!

 Photo credit for the first 4 photos: Julie Fry.