Turn Rocks, Minerals and the Rock Cycle into an adventure with this comic-style science reader. Illustrated pages, characters and short captions explain the science, with review activities built in.

Grades 3–4ScienceNGSS Aligned13 pagesPDF

📌 What’s Included

• 13 printable pages
• Comic-style geology reader with recurring Rock Rangers characters
• Science vocabulary box on every page
• Pages on rocks and minerals, the three rock types, weathering, erosion and the rock cycle
• Rock-type matching activity
• Three-question final review
• Full-color PDF in wide 16:9 landscape format

🎯 Skills Covered

• Identify igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
• Describe minerals and their properties
• Explain the rock cycle through a science story

🎓 Grade & Standards

• Grades 3–4 Science
• Tagged to NGSS

👩‍🏫 Ways to Use It

• Read-aloud: read the story together as a class
• Independent reading: students read and complete the activities
• Science centers: a reading station for the unit
• Review: use the review questions to check understanding

⭐ Why Teachers Love It

• No prep: print and go
• A story format that makes science reading fun