Rock Explorers for young children

The new ELI today is part of our series ELI Early years, 'Rock Explorers; putting rocks into families'. As Rock Explorers, pupils investigate a variety of rocks and sort them into groups. The activity includes opportunities for literacy, numeracy and art.

You could ask the pupils how they think the rocks might be used, e.g. the White family might be used to decorate buildings, the Pink family could be used in jewellery.
Other activities written specially for young children can be found on the website; ELI Early years.