Rocks+and+Fossils

=What's Under the ground?= The Juniors are unraveling fossil mysteries and the clues they hold to a hidden past.

The display features two fossil hunts:
Using the microscope, students can hunt for trilobites and graptolites in Cobb Valley limestone (530million years old!). then go exploring an ancient sea floor in a piece of Takaka Hill limestone and uncover a shelly fossil feast from Wangaloa. They can go on a mini-dig to collect fossils laid down In North Otago, 25 million years ago, when most of NZ was under the sea. They can also learn to identify some common rocks using The Rock Key and start identifying the many rocks brought into The Allen Centre by budding Junior petrologists. They will soon discover there is no such thing as an the rocks were formed. There's a rock collection box made out of milk cartons, a paper trilobite model and a fossil cleaning kit to make as well...... there's also a stunning jigsaw of the Earth with a giant slice removed, dripping molten lava beneath folded rocks, mountains and an erupting volcano. Examining microfossils. Having brushed the greensand from the macro fossils in the Fossil Dig, students discovered even more fossils in their sand-brushings - the exquisite structures of foramenifera and radiolarians, (pictured on the bookcover in the photo on the right). || || Finn's interesting collection of jaspers, schists and "earthquake" rocks. || What shape is a sapphire? Exploring models of crystal shapes with Mr Beaton. ||
 * [[image:trilobites3-51.jpg caption="Cobb Valley Limestone"]] || [[image:dinofossils-38.jpg caption="Takaka Limestone"]] ||
 * [[image:wangaloa_fossils-30.jpg caption="Wangaloa Sandstone"]] || [[image:dinolimestone_fossils-21.jpg caption="Takaka Limestone"]] ||
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 * ordinary** rock - or a **new** rock, for that matter - as they learn to read rock clues, and relate these to the different ways
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=Jacob's Treasure.....=
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Jacob, proudly holding box and badge.
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Good old Grandpa!
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Discover why there's no such thing as a **new** rock
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The Mystery of the Floating Rock The Mystery of the Broken Necklace The Mystery of the Golden Cube
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 * =This planet really...=

Colour in a **[|paper pattern]** to make a model of granite
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Assemble a**[| skeleton jigsaw].**
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Listen to them [|here].
|| == **The Rock Song** ==

** Metamorphic ** they'll become.
(Sing to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat") ||
 * ==[[image:rocks_8.jpg width="362" height="251"]] [|A Gallery of Rocks] == || [[image:rocks_9.gif]]

**Make a [|paper trilobite]**
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Wherever you are, you might be standing on a fossil!
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Mary Anning (1799 - 1847)
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discovering the first dinosaur bones in New Zealand.
|| == [|Fossil Mysteries] ==

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