1st grade students studying the unit of Rocks, silt, sand, and pebbles.
Justification
While doing my own research on Rocks for the project I decided that pictures with some text would benefit my students the best. Only being in 1st grade I have some students that are not able to read so visuals are best for them. Each of the four words has a picture to go with it. Rocks between two hands represents that most often to pick up a rock two hands are needed. Each of the other three words, pebbles, sand, and silt all have rock in them.
The visual for pebbles is one hand with two fingers acting as if they were getting ready to grab something. This represents that a pebble is small enough to be picked up between two fingers.
The visual for sand is gears that would be grinding up a rock to make it small, so small that a single grain of sand would have to be seen using a magnifying glass.
The visual for Silt is the word sand and water. Silt is sand and water mixed together.
For the unit it is important to know that they are all tied together and are all made of the same basic characteristics. The main thing that they all have in common is that they all descend from what we know and call rock.
User Test
When I showed this to the other teachers they all agreed that this would be a great visual and reminder of what each of the words mean, especially those students who struggle to read. It is also a great visual for those students who can read and have a photographic memory to be able to remember the graphics associated with each of the words.
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