STAR ROCKS!

Year 3 had fun today using Starburst candies to help us understand how different rocks are formed. Cutting our candies into smaller sediments, morphing them together with heat and pressure and melting them in the microwave helped us to visualise and understand how Sedimentary, Metamorphic and Igneous rocks are formed. It also helped us to understand the properties of solids and liquids and the processes of melting and solidification. Take a look:-