Rock Cycle Foldable
Materials:3 pieces construction paper (pre cut), Stapler(please pass around), Pens/Pencils/Markers
1 piece on color
2 pieces another color
Instructions: Lay each piece of construction paper on top of each other, one inch apart, going in the
same direction, allowing you to see each color
1- Holding the three pieces together with your left hand, go ¾ down the paper and fold up. (the
fold should have created 6 layers or flaps)
2- Turn the folded pieces upside down, making sure they all stay together, and put a staple in each
corner.
3- Using a coloring pencil, marker or ink pen, on the first layer, write the title “Rock Cycle”
4- On the second layer, write “Heat & Pressure”
5- On the third layer, write “Weathering”
6- On the 4th layer, write “Erosion”
7- On the 5th layer, write “compacting”
8- On the 6th layer, write “cementing
9- Fold the first layer “rock cycle” up. You should now be looking at the “Heat & Pressure” layer.
10- On the top of the heat and pressure layer, write “with heat and pressure an igneous rock or
sedimentary rock is changed into a metamorphic rock.
11- Now, fold up the heat and pressure layer, you should be looking at the weathering layer. Write
“the breaking down of rocks”
12- Fold the weathering layer, you should be looking at the erosion layer.
13- On the erosion layer, write When wind, water, ice and gravity move pieces of rock and soil
14- Then you should draw the diagram below, being sure to label.
Water
Wind
Gravity
Ice
Fold over the erosion layer and you should now be looking at the compacting layer. On this layer, write
“squeezes layers of rock” Then make sure to add the drawing with labels below.
Rock Cycle Foldable
15- Fold the compacting layer up and you should now be on the last layer, the “cementing” layer.
16- At the top of the cementing layer, write glues sediments together then insert the following
drawing with labels below
Glue