Today I presented my first Rocks & Minerals Roadshow for 2016! A big thankyou to Paterson Primary School Y3-4 composite class for having me.
We talked about where you find the different types of rocks – Sedimentary, Metamorphic & Igneous, and how the Earth’s moving tectonic plates control the processes that produce each type. We also cleared up the definition of archaeologist v palaeontologist v geologist fairly early on in the session when all the kids wanted to see were fossils… “I’m just a rock doctor, sorry, I don’t have many fossils. But I do have a piece of a meteorite, and look at all these pretty shiny minerals!” – my collection made up for the fact I am just a rock-head not a fossil-head.
So much enthusiasm and excitement and omg noise! It was great fun though, and I really should do it more often… it was a good work-out for me weight-lifting all my bigger specimens. Hehe should’ve had the fitbit on.
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