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1. Have students come up with a list of earth science words. List
these on a chalkboard. (Examples: rock, stone, plate, coal,
slate, shale, etc.)
2. Have students come up with words that rhyme with the earth
science words. The pair of words will usually be an
adjective/noun combination. Watch out—they may be quite
silly. (Examples: rock talk, stone loan, plate fate, coal bowl,
late slate, pale shale, etc.)
3. The students must now write a question for which the
rhyming pair would be the answer. They may NOT use wither
of the rhyming words in the question. This is where the
thesaurus comes in handy. For example:
a. What do rocks get when they need money? (stone loan)
b. What happened to the earth’s crust (plate fate)
c. Where did the black sedimentary rock football? (coal bowl)
d. What metamorphic rock was running? (late slate)
e. What do you call a crumbly sedimentary rock that is light in
color? (pale shale)
Rock Riddles
By Nancy Moore
Walton Middle School
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