great site to learn about the rock cycle

I am using a great website with my students today. We are learning about the rock cycle and I have them using the laptop computers here at school to visit this site:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0602/es0602page02.cfm

The site is an animated and interactive depiction of the rock cycle that includes drawings and photographs of the different concepts including erosion and deposition and compaction and cementation.
The students are working in pairs to navigate the site and writing descriptions of the various animations.
One student told me she thought it was really cool. I think that is the general feeling.
Till next time,
Mr. Honer

New Blog

Hello,
This is my first post to the Mr. Honer's Science Blog.
I'm still trying to decide how I will use it with my sixth grade classroom. I figured that it would evolve much as my teaching has evolved over the years.

I was just reading about the earthquakes in Hawaii and was struck by the fact that whenever I am teaching about a natural disaster (in this case, we have been discussing earthquakes for the last few weeks) something pops up in the news. Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans just as I was working on the same topic with my students. At least we could use the tragedy as a chance to learn and find out what we could do to serve others! That class raised over $2,000.00 for Katrina relief!
Let me know what you think.
Mr. Honer