Description
The play is filled with lots of scientific information about rocks and minerals, including sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks, fossils, Moh’s Scale of Hardness, and more! This is a high-interest science play full of humor too. Students love to perform this one since it’s so much fun!
Specifically, it includes:
8 Page Original Script with 30 parts
11 Pages of Detailed Teacher Notes
Summary of the Play:
Basalt (the main character, a little rock) has decided to leave the quarry to search for an agent who will help him become a rock star. Along the way, he meets each rock group, like the igneous rocks who are having a luau.
During his travels, we get to know cute characters like the Geologist, a nerdy know-it-all, Moh, the fast-talking, slick agent, and Diamond, the diva superstar. In the end, Basalt seeks the advice of The Geode, a wise, all-knowing guru, who helps him follow his dreams.
The running time for this play is about 20 -25 minutes, which is a perfect amount of time for 3rd – 6th graders.
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Here are the other two plays included in the Reader’s Theater Science Bundle:
Reader’s Theater: Weather Play
Reader’s Theater: Solar System Play
Why you’ll love this resource:
- It’s a perfect way to introduce or review a rocks and minerals science unit.
- It helps you save time by integrating science and reading.
- There are enough parts for each child in your class (up to 30) but it can be used for any number of students with a bit of tweaking!
- The play can be used as a grand production for the whole school or for a parent night or it may be used in a single setting in the classroom.
- Students love the humor in the play and enjoy reading it.
- There are suggested popular songs that may be added for full productions, like We Will Rock You!
- The play is a great tool to practice fluency using repeated readings.
SAVE MORE and GET MORE with this Reader’s Theater Bundle #2! It has all 3 plays: Adaptations, Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition, and Force and Motion!
Thanks so much!
Jenn
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