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The Rock Collection Lotus Leaf Notebook is a Middle School must do project learning assignment!

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Teachers will use these templates for years with many classes.
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The focus is on Rock Classification, but the 10 lessons span a dozen classroom sessions which teach the student about crystals, geology, atomic lattice, and more.  The culmination to the series of lessons is the construction of a notebook which is 3-D, and opens up like a lotus flower, one flap at a time.   The content is organized in the same graphic design as are all the other KOFH educational products, but there is one page which organizes the three types of mineral/rocks into groups that display small particles of the actual rock, itself.   

FIND THESE CRYSTALS ON THE COLLECTION GRAPHIC
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The teacher finds small samples of the rocks listed on the one sheet of paper called the Rock Collection. By wrapping each rock in a towel and striking it with a hammer, small splinters are made available to the students. Working from the desks, they are allowed to come to a display table which the teacher has set  up.  On that table are the splinters rock sample, each one properly identified. The students can use forceps or fingers to select one splinter at a tie, carry in back to their seat, and glue it in the appropriate space. 
 

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The Rock and Mineral Collection Graphically Displayed
 
The project displays the sample rock splinters which the students glue in these triangles.  When properly folded and placed inside the other pages of the Lotus Leaf Notebook, the whole rock collection is displayed in accord with the geological taxonomy. The 3-D Rock and Mineral Collection will display all the splintered samples on the flaps and the other side of the pages as one leaf is removed and opened.

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What a "show and tell,"... take home eductional project this is!.
The students love the activity and the self esteem in having started their own Rock Collection. They may not look at the Collection for a long time, but they tend to keep this neat lotus Leaf Notebook laying around at home long after they have been promoted or graduated.

The completed Rock Collection is a 3-D foldable display which opens up as it reveals the order and taxonomy used to classify Rocks and Minerals: 

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CLICK ON LINKS BELOW FOR "HOW TO" INSTRUCTIONS FOR THESE PRODUCTS:

HOW TO UTILIZED THE HAND AS THE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

HOW TO FOLD A PAGE IN THE LOTUS LEAF NOTEBOOK:

How TO USE THE BLACKBOARD TO LECTURE ON A LOTUS LEAF PAGE:

HOW TO CUT AND FOLD THE CUBES: