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Earth And Earth : The Importance Of The Earth On Earth

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Instinctively, children love to explore outside and discover new things about the items that they see everyday, like rocks. I think that it is important for teachers and all other adults to teach children more about the earth we live on and the things that make up our beautiful earth. Naturally, children believe that the ground consist of only soil and that rocks are only on the surface of the ground. They believe that the rocks they find on the surface of the ground that they can hold and examine, are the only rocks that exist on earth. Children love these rocks because they can examine and collect them. Also because they are so common, yet the characteristics of each rock are so different making them each so unique and beautiful. Although they these rocks are so unique and beautiful, they are not the only rocks on earth. Children believe they are and that the ground is made up of only soil however that is wrong. They are right about the ground being made of soil and that rocks can be held and examined, but that isn’t the whole truth. The ground is not purely made of soil and all rocks are not on the surface of earth. There are actually three ways a rock can be formed and they can actually also be found inside the earth below the soil that we see everyday. Teachers need to teach children about rocks in a variety of ways. Through videos and pictures, discussions of rocks in different locations, etc. Teachers should teach about this concept because of how important it is.

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