Hello Karla,

There is one project developed for some European Universities (PR: Amelia Calonge from the University of Alcalá) called “GEOschools-Teaching Geosciences in Secondary Schools" that probably can be useful for your interests.

Good luck!

Try a pill press, fill compression tube with sand, bits of mica, iron oxides, and some other goodies (Charcol, zircon, , compress to 10000 lbs or more, should be a good demo. Even better if you can control the temperature!

Depending on where you live, a Saturday field trip to a location that has

Metamorphic Rocks would be most beneficial.

You may consider microscope work - looking at thin sections from metamorphic rocks and contrast them with those from non-metamorphosed rocks.

Hi Karla,

most instructive for me, as a 1st year student, had been a shortly commented drawer-collection of basic types of sedimentary rocks and of intrusives, each accompanied, by its progressively tranfsormed meta-sedimentary and meta-intrusives, with various degrees of foliation intensity and visible newly formed metamoprhic minerals.

Then direct field sampling across a well exposed metamorphic aureole developed in sedimentary rocks around a pluton is an excellent observational-deductive-inductive practical exercise. Then add microscopic work on samples selected by the class.

In alternative try finding a copy of the exceptionally well illustrated monography on the transformations of the Adamello pluton sedimentary cover "Adamello: una finestra sulla camera magmatica" available in Italian and German by Peter Brack and Paolo Schirolli on the Adamello metamorphic aureole . You may order it at

http://itineraribrescia.it/cultura/museo-civico-di-scienze-naturali/

If it is not available anynore from the Museum, I may hand you out a copy with pleasure.

Cheers

Guido

I visited two rock quarries today, both had metamorphic rocks.

The layers were in wave form in both quarries,

which indicates both vertical and lateral compression

of the original geologic layers.

Get some plasticine and step on it, it becomes flat due to high pressure.

This is how igneous / sedimentary rocks become flattened (and look flattened) under higher pressure conditions at great depth.