Types of Rock
Your child can name three kinds of rock. Igneous forms when lava cools. Sedimentary forms from pressed layers. Fossils are found in that layered rock.
In curriculum terms
Know the three main types of rock — igneous (formed when lava or magma cools), sedimentary (formed from layers pressed together), and metamorphic — and that fossils are found in sedimentary rock
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If your child finds different rocks on a beach walk, can they sort them and explain that some formed from cooled lava, some from layers pressed together over time, and that fossils are found in the layered ones?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).