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Year 3: Rocks

This list consists of lesson plans, activities and video clips to support the teaching of rocks in Year Three. It contains tips on using the resources, suggestions for further use and background subject knowledge. Possible misconceptions are highlighted so that teachers may plan lessons to facilitate correct conceptual understanding. Designed to support the new curriculum  programme  of study it aims to cover many of the requirements for knowledge and understanding and working scientifically. The statutory requirements are that children are taught to:

• compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
• describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock
• recognise  that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

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Rocks: rocks and fossils

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Be a rock detective in this series of lesson plans including full notes for teachers and all materials for running the lesson(except the rocks!)

From page 23 there are a series of whole class investigations, each  focussing  on a different way of working scientifically. Activity 10 on page 34 could be used when looking at which rocks erode the most and could be linked to writing a short conclusion after investigating.

Other activities include sorting and naming rocks, testing hardness and other properties, carrying out tests on soil samples and observing how rocks are used around the school.

BBC Nature-Fossils

A link to videos which help show how fossils resemble living animals, fossil finds around the world and how fossils form. 'Mud fossils' is a short clip which shows how a fossil of a fish is formed. This clip could be played before going on to simulate the process of fossil formation in class. It also helps children see that a fossil was once a living thing, and could be used as a starter when comparing fossils that have been found to living creatures. Some good examples would be 'Living fossils' such as the tuatara, the coelacanth and the monkey puzzle tree.

Mary Anning Monologue

The curriculum states that children should also be introduced to scientists, for example, Mary  Anning , the link connects to a CPD unit on using drama in science, in this instance a  monologue  based on Mary Anning’s life story which help children to develop an understanding of the human face of science. Children could also be introduced to more recent  palaeontologists  such as Robert  Bakker  who was one of the technical advisers for the original Jurassic Park as well as visits to museums and visits into school from geologists  organised  by your university outreach group.

The Variety of Life Teachers’ Guide (Ages 7-12)

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Providing activity ideas,background knowledge for teachers and misconceptions about fossils.

Ask children to bring in the oldest thing they have and place it on a timeline. Try creating a timeline including key events from history which they will have studied. Then ask them to place when they think the fossil will go. This will help children start to  deveop  an understanding of the timescale of fossil formation.

Earth Science for Primary Teachers: an INSET Handbook

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This is a treasure chest of ideas for teaching about fossils, containing ideas for use in class or for an inset activity to help teachers prepare for this new topic.

looking at fossils of plants and animals may help children see that fossils are not 'bits of bones' but were once living creatures.

The activity idea on page 32 involves making a replica of a fossil. Making your own fossil is a way to help children see how fossils are formed. It is worth noting that there are three main types of fossil: the true form fossil, trace fossil and mold fossil.

True Form Fossils are made of an actual plant or animal. The hard parts of the body like the bones or stems were trapped in rock and effectively preserved. The soft parts of the body like the skin and muscle usually decompose before fossilization can occur. It is an important point that the organism has been replaced by mineral deposits as some children will think that the original organism is inside the fossil.

Trace Fossils reveal information about the animal's lifestyle and include  fossilised  footprints and fecal matter.

Mold fossils are hollow impressions left by a plant or animal. The surrounding mud and sediment hardens around the dead organism and only an imprint of it remains after decomposition. A cast fossil may form when sediment fills in a hollow mold fossil. The cast is a natural occurring replica of the actual organism.

Darwin and Natural Selection

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Get your hands dirty in this fun activity which models the following stages in the formation and finding of fossils: erosion, sedimentation, creatures dying and being buried, fossilisation of hard remains, fossils uncovered. Children carry out a simulation of the process, adding model dinosaurs, ferns, leaves and shells helps them to see that fossils which have been found were once living things.

The 'Hands on Activity' section parts 3 and 4 relate to the area of rocks.

Rocks, soils and fossils Class Clips

A selection of class clips from BBC useful for illustrating various points on the topic of rocks and fossils.

Dinosaur Fossil Animation Sequence Activity

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This computing animation project is a nice link to fossils. It teaches the concept of sequencing within programs. Children use costumes and a range of commands in Scratch to produce animations. They are encouraged to debug and improve the program, and can extend the challenge by recording sound as well as requesting user input such as key presses.

Edible model rocks

Quality Assured Category: Science Publisher: Science and Technology Facilities Council - UKRI

In this activity, students will learn about the three main types of Earth rocks and make edible analogues to help explain how they form. They will then use the ideas from this activity to investigate and suggest what some of the samples in the meteorite hunters boxes might be.

Big Jurassic Classroom

The Big Jurassic Classroom resources support the teaching of rocks, fossils and evolution, bringing the wonder of the Jurassic Coast to your classroom.

Coastline Protection

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Children can learn about ceramics, man made and natural materials, including the importance and dangers of weathering and erosion.

Quality Assured Category: Mathematics Publisher: Geological Society

In this resource pupils will learn about geological time, different geological periods and how old the earth is.  Activities include exploring dinosaur footprints then using stride length and leg length to calculate their relative speed, as well as investigating dinosaur food chains.

Quality Assured Category: Science Publisher: Geological Society

This fact sheet for primary pupils explores what fossils are and how they form. It considers why scientists study fossils and what can they tell us about the ancient creatures and plants that once lived on Earth.

Mary Anning

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A factsheet on Mary Anning, the famous fossil hunter and collector from the 19th century. She made many incredible discoveries and became famous throughout the scientific world as her work was extremely important to palaeontology, the scientific study of ancient life.

The rock cycle

In this resource pupils will examine and compare different kinds of rocks and learn that all rocks are made from a mixture of minerals. They look at how the three main rock types are formed and their properties. Pupils also look at how rocks change over time through erosion and weathering.

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Rocks Year 3 – Characteristics science worksheet

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This rocks Year 3 worksheet explains that we can use different rocks for different purposes. It shows examples (including images) of:

• chalk – soft and leaves a clear white mark when dragged along hard surfaces
• granite – very hard and can be polished to a smooth, shiny finish
• slate – impermeable and forms long, flat sheets when broken
• sandstone – useful in construction and abundant
• limestone – easy to cut and shape and takes a long time to erode
• diamond – difficult to break or scratch and has a shiny, attractive finish

It discusses their characteristics and typical uses.

The second sheet shows pictures of the following things:

• Chopping board
• Art and drawing
• Engagement ring

Children need to write which type of rock we might use for the job, and why.

We also have a rocks assessment worksheet with answers , also for Year 3.

Rocks Year 3 curriculum

The primary objectives of teaching about rocks in Year 3 are to develop students’ understanding of Earth materials and to introduce them to basic geological concepts.

Pupils will learn to identify and describe different types of rocks, including sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks. They also explore the properties of rocks, such as their colour, texture and hardness.

Understanding the basic processes involved in the formation of rocks is a key aspect. This involves exploring how sedimentary rocks are formed through the accumulation of layers, igneous rocks from volcanic activity, and metamorphic rocks through heat and pressure.

This worksheet encourages children to compare and classify rocks based on their characteristics, helping them develop skills in scientific observation and classification.

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Geologists discover rocks with the oldest evidence yet of Earth’s magnetic field

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Geologists at MIT and Oxford University have uncovered ancient rocks in Greenland that bear the oldest remnants of Earth’s early magnetic field.

The rocks appear to be exceptionally pristine, having preserved their properties for billions of years. The researchers determined that the rocks are about 3.7 billion years old and retain signatures of a magnetic field with a strength of at least 15 microtesla. The ancient field is similar in magnitude to the Earth’s magnetic field today.

The open-access findings, appearing today in the Journal of Geophysical Research , represent some of the earliest evidence of a magnetic field surrounding the Earth. The results potentially extend the age of the Earth’s magnetic field by hundreds of millions of years, and may shed light on the planet’s early conditions that helped life take hold.

“The magnetic field is, in theory, one of the reasons we think Earth is really unique as a habitable planet,” says Claire Nichols, a former MIT postdoc who is now an associate professor of the geology of planetary processes at Oxford University. “It’s thought our magnetic field protects us from harmful radiation from space, and also helps us to have oceans and atmospheres that can be stable for long periods of time.”

Previous studies have shown evidence for a magnetic field on Earth that is at least 3.5 billion years old. The new study is extending the magnetic field’s lifetime by another 200 million years.

“That’s important because that’s the time when we think life was emerging,” says Benjamin Weiss, the Robert R. Shrock Professor of Planetary Sciences in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). “If the Earth’s magnetic field was around a few hundred million years earlier, it could have played a critical role in making the planet habitable.”

Nichols and Weiss are co-authors of the new study, which also includes Craig Martin and Athena Eyster at MIT, Adam Maloof at Princeton University, and additional colleagues from institutions including Tufts University and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A slow churn

Today, the Earth’s magnetic field is powered by its molten iron core, which slowly churns up electric currents in a self-generating “dynamo.” The resulting magnetic field extends out and around the planet like a protective bubble. Scientists suspect that, early in its evolution, the Earth was able to foster life, in part due to an early magnetic field that was strong enough to retain a life-sustaining atmosphere and simultaneously shield the planet from damaging solar radiation.

Exactly how early and robust this magnetic shield was is up for debate, though there has been evidence dating its existence to about 3.5 billion years ago.

“We wanted to see if we could extend this record back beyond 3.5 billion years and nail down how strong that early field was,” Nichols says.

In 2018, as a postdoc working in Weiss’ lab at the time, Nichols and her team set off on an expedition to the Isua Supracrustal Belt, a 20-mile stretch of exposed rock formations surrounded by towering ice sheets in the southwest of Greenland. There, scientists have discovered the oldest preserved rocks on Earth, which have been extensively studied in hopes of answering a slew of scientific questions about Earth’s ancient conditions.

For Nichols and Weiss, the objective was to find rocks that still held signatures of the Earth’s magnetic field when the rocks first formed. Rocks form through many millions of years, as grains of sediment and minerals accumulate and are progressively packed and buried under subsequent deposition over time. Any magnetic minerals such as iron-oxides that are in the deposits follow the pull of the Earth’s magnetic field as they form. This collective orientation, and the imprint of the magnetic field, are preserved in the rocks.

However, this preserved magnetic field can be scrambled and completely erased if the rocks subsequently undergo extreme thermal or aqueous events such as hydrothermal activity or plate tectonics that can pressurize and crush up these deposits. Determining the age of a magnetic field in ancient rocks has therefore been a highly contested area of study.

To get to rocks that were hopefully preserved and unaltered since their original deposition, the team sampled from rock formations in the Isua Supracrustal Belt, a remote location that was only accessible by helicopter.

“It’s about 150 kilometers away from the capital city, and you get helicoptered in, right up against the ice sheet,” Nichols says. “Here, you have the world’s oldest rocks essentially, surrounded by this dramatic expression of the ice age. It’s a really spectacular place.”

Dynamic history

The team returned to MIT with whole rock samples of banded iron formations — a rock type that appears as stripes of iron-rich and silica-rich rock. The iron-oxide minerals found in these rocks can act as tiny magnets that orient with any external magnetic field. Given their composition, the researchers suspect the rocks were originally formed in primordial oceans prior to the rise in atmospheric oxygen around 2.5 billion years ago.

“Back when there wasn’t oxygen in the atmosphere, iron didn’t oxidize so easily, so it was in solution in the oceans until it reached a critical concentration, when it precipitated out,” Nichols explains. “So, it’s basically a result of iron raining out of the oceans and depositing on the seafloor.”

“They’re very beautiful, weird rocks that don’t look like anything that forms on Earth today,” Weiss adds.

Previous studies had used uranium-lead dating to determine the age of the iron oxides in these rock samples. The ratio of uranium to lead (U-Pb) gives scientists an estimate of a rock’s age. This analysis found that some of the magnetized minerals were likely about 3.7 billion years old. The MIT team, in collaboration with researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, showed in a paper published last year that the U-Pb age also dates the age of the magnetic record in these minerals.

The researchers then set out to determine whether the ancient rocks preserved magnetic field from that far back, and how strong that field might have been.

“The samples we think are best and have that very old signature, we then demagnetize in the lab, in steps. We apply a laboratory field that we know the strength of, and we remagnetize the rocks in steps, so you can compare the gradient of the demagnetization to the gradient of the lab magnetization. That gradient tells you how strong the ancient field was,” Nichols explains.

Through this careful process of remagnetization, the team concluded that the rocks likely harbored an ancient, 3.7-billion-year-old magnetic field, with a magnitude of at least 15 microtesla. Today, Earth’s magnetic field measures around 30 microtesla.

“It’s half the strength, but the same order of magnitude,” Nichols says. “The fact that it’s similar in strength as today’s field implies whatever is driving Earth’s magnetic field has not changed massively in power over billions of years.”

The team’s experiments also showed that the rocks retained the ancient field, despite having undergone two subsequent thermal events. Any extreme thermal event, such as a tectonic shake-up of the subsurface or hydrothermal eruptions, could potentially heat up and erase a rock’s magnetic field. But the team found that the iron in their samples likely oriented, then crystallized, 3.7 billion years ago, in some initial, extreme thermal event. Around 2.8 billion years ago, and then again at 1.5 billion years ago, the rocks may have been reheated, but not to the extreme temperatures that would have scrambled their magnetization.

“The rocks that the team has studied have experienced quite a bit during their long geological journey on our planet,” says Annique van der Boon, a planetary science researcher at the University of Oslo who was not involved in the study. “The authors have done a lot of work on constraining which geological events have affected the rocks at different times.” 

“The team have taken their time to deliver a very thorough study of these complex rocks, which do not give up their secrets easily,” says Andy Biggin, professor of geomagnetism at the University of Liverpool, who did not contribute to the study. “These new results tell us that the Earth’s magnetic field was alive and well 3.7 billion years ago. Knowing it was there and strong contributes a significant boundary constraint on the early Earth’s environment.”

The results also raise questions about how the ancient Earth could have powered such a robust magnetic field. While today’s field is powered by crystallization of the solid iron inner core, it’s thought that the inner core had not yet formed so early in the planet’s evolution.

“It seems like evidence for whatever was generating a magnetic field back then was a different power source from what we have today,” Weiss says. “And we care about Earth because there’s life here, but it’s also a touchstone for understanding other terrestrial planets. It suggests planets throughout the galaxy probably have lots of ways of powering a magnetic field, which is important for the question of habitability elsewhere.”

This research was supported, in part, by the Simons Foundation.

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Look! 3.7 Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal The Oldest Evidence of Earth’s Magnetic Field

Our planet was a different place when these rocks formed.

Rocks in West Greenland resemble cake marbled with chocolate and vanilla. They’re now the oldest evidence of Earth’s magnetic field.

Isua Supracrustal Belt rocks contain an alternating banded iron formation (BIF), which gives them their signature marbled look. About 3.7 billion years ago, the rocks reached a temperature of 550°C. At such a high temperature, iron then had an opportunity to align itself with Earth’s magnetic field. They never encountered such a temperature since, narrowly avoiding getting destroyed by two major subsequent events. In a new paper published Wednesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research , scientists learned that Earth has been protecting us for eons. But, there’s new questions, too.

Why is Earth Magnetic?

Earth’s magnetic field is a precious phenomenon. Liquid iron flowing inside our planet’s outer core interacts with the high temperature surrounding it, creating a powerful magnetic field crucial to life on Earth.

An example of the 3.7 billion year old banded iron formation.

The magnetic field shields the surface from dangerous cosmic-ray bombardments from outer space. Like a mega-sized saran wrap, the magnetic field also keeps the atmosphere from evaporating away into the ether.

“The preservation of a temperate climate and liquid water on early Earth depends critically upon the strength of the magnetosphere,” the researchers wrote in the paper.

The new work offers a salve against worry. Their work suggests Earth has sustained a magnetic field since at least 3.7 billion years ago, the age of the cake-looking BIF rocks. This places the rocks in the Eoarchean, when the first records of Earth’s primitive atmosphere and oceans emerge.

An illustration of Earth’s magnetic field. Solar material and energy gets funneled towards the poles where it can create auroras.

The magnetic field is not steady , however. The poles have reversed several times in Earth’s history. Its strength wanes sometimes, too. These are called excursions. Rock records have revealed that cosmic rays can penetrate down the surface more often during these vulnerable chapters — although fortunately, no extinction or biodiversity drop has correlated with excursions in the fossil record.

But they’re evidence that Earth’s heart is constantly changing. Learning how it has changed depends on how well rocks, called part of the paleomagnetic record, have survived the passage of time.

Often, the magnetization of rocks — when iron forms bands that match the magnetic field — can reset. This can happen when rocks get buried during tectonic activity, and heat up.

Study co-author Athena Eyster stands in front of a large exposure of banded iron formation.

The researchers found that the Eoarchean rocks were not reset about a billion years later during the Neoarchean, when intense volcanism churned in the oceans. The rocks also survived the Proterozoic, when crustal recycling increased.

The West Greenland rocks flesh out more of our magnetic field’s long history. In the paper, the researchers suggest a consequence of the work: learning when the magnetic field allowed hydrogen to escape the atmosphere, “eventually culminating” in the Great Oxidation Event . This caused a major extinction event, and eventually, life forms had to evolve to breathe oxygen to survive.

Understanding the inner workings of Earth’s interior exposes just how distinctive and precious our planet is.

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After a whirlwind first round, SI's Matt Verderame forecasts what's to come in the 2024 draft.

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The first round of the 2024 NFL draft is complete . Only six rounds to go.

If your team didn’t get the player you wanted on Thursday night, don’t worry about it. There’s still Friday and Saturday, beginning with the second and third rounds on Friday evening.

But before we dive into what could happen in the rounds ahead, let’s take stock of Thursday night.

In the first 12 picks, there were six quarterbacks selected: Caleb Williams (No. 1), Jayden Daniels (No. 2), Drake Maye (No. 3), J.J. McCarthy (No. 10) and Bo Nix (No. 12). 

Conversely, no defender was taken in the top 10 picks for the first time since the common draft era began in 1969. The first was Laiatu Latu, who fell to the Indianapolis Colts at No. 15.

But what should you expect moving forward? How are things going to go from here? Let’s look at our mock for the next two rounds. 

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33. Buffalo Bills (from Carolina): Adonai Mitchell, WR, Texas

34. New England Patriots: Ladd McConkey, WR, Georgia

35. Arizona Cardinals: Cooper DeJean, CB, Iowa

36. Washington Commanders: Jer'Zhan Newton, DL, Illinois

37. Los Angeles Chargers: Jackson Powers-Johnson, OC, Oregon

38. Tennessee Titans: Marshawn Kneeland, EDGE, Western Michigan

39. Carolina Panthers (from New York Giants): Zach Frazier, OC, West Virginia

40. Washington Commanders (from Chicago): Kingsley Suamataia, OT, BYU

41. Green Bay Packers (from New York Jets): Ennis Rakestraw Jr., CB, Missouri

42. Houston Texans (from Minnesota): Braden Fiske, DL, Florida State

43. Atlanta Falcons: Jonah Elliss, EDGE, Utah

44. Las Vegas Raiders: Jonathon Brooks, RB, Texas

45. New Orleans Saints (from Denver): Kris Jenkins, DT, Michigan

46. Indianapolis Colts: Ben Sinnott, TE, Kansas State

Quarterback Spencer Rattler played two seasons at South Carolina after transferring from Oklahoma.

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47. New York Giants (from Seattle): Spencer Rattler, QB, South Carolina

48. Jacksonville Jaguars: Kool-Aid McKinstry, CB, Alabama

49. Cincinnati Bengals: Keon Coleman, WR, Florida State

50. Philadelphia Eagles (from New Orleans): Tyler Nubin, S, Minnesota

51. Pittsburgh Steelers: Troy Franklin, WR, Oregon

52. Los Angeles Rams: Maason Smith, DL, LSU

53. Philadelphia Eagles: Edgerrin Cooper, LB, Texas A&M

54. Cleveland Browns: Michael Hall Jr., DL, Ohio State

55. Miami Dolphins: Cooper Beebe, OG, Kansas State

56. Dallas Cowboys: Jaylen Wright, RB, Tennessee

57. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Max Melton, CB, Rutgers

58. Green Bay Packers: Patrick Paul, OT, Houston

59. Houston Texans: TJ Tampa, CB, Iowa State

60. Buffalo Bills: Jaden Hicks, S, Washington State

61. Detroit Lions: Christian Haynes, OG, Connecticut

62. Baltimore Ravens: Blake Fisher, OT, Notre Dame

63. San Francisco 49ers: Kamari Lassiter, CB, Georgia

64. Kansas City Chiefs: Roger Rosengarten, OT, Washington

Third Round

65. Carolina Panthers: Adisa Isaac, EDGE, Penn State

66. Arizona Cardinals: Bralen Trice, EDGE, Washington

67. Washington Commanders: Malachi Corley, WR, Western Kentucky

68. New England Patriots: Christian Jones, OT, Texas

69. Los Angeles Chargers: Ja'Tavion Sanders, TE, Texas 

70. New York Giants: Mason McCormick, OG, South Dakota State

71. Arizona Cardinals (from Tennesse): Payton Wilson, LB, North Carolina State

72. New York Jets: Cade Stover, TE, Ohio State

Washington Huskies receiver Ja'Lynn Polk tallied 1,159 receiving yards and nine touchdowns for the Huskies last season.

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73. Dallas Cowboys (from Detroit): Ja'Lynn Polk, WR, Washington

74. Atlanta Falcons: Chris Braswell, EDGE, Alabama

75. Chicago Bears: Isaiah Adams, OG, Illinois

76. Denver Broncos: DeWayne Carter, DL, Duke

77. Las Vegas Raiders: Mike Sainristil, CB, Michigan

78. Washington Commanders (from Seattle): Cam Hart, CB, Notre Dame

79. Atlanta Falcons (from Jacksonville): Dru Phillips, CB, Kentucky

80. Cincinnati Bengals: Braiden McGregor, EDGE, Michigan

81. Seattle Seahawks (from New Orleans): Ty'Ron Hopper, LB, Missouri

82. Indianapolis Colts: Jalen McMillan, WR, Washington

83. Los Angeles Rams: Kris Abrams-Draine, CB, Missouri

84. Pittsburgh Steelers: Junior Colson, LB, Michigan

85. Cleveland Browns: Zak Zinter, OG, Michigan

86. Houston Texans (from Philadelphia): Dominick Puni, OG, Kansas

87. Dallas Cowboys: Cedric Gray, LB, North Carolina

88. Green Bay Packers: Cole Bishop, S, Utah

89. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Trey Benson, RB, Florida State

90. Arizona Cardinals (from Houston): Delmar Glaze, OT, Maryland

91. Green Bay Packers (from Buffal0): Ruke Orhorhoro, DL, Clemson

92. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (from Detroit): Mohamed Kamara, EDGE, Colorado State

Jermaine Burton played two seasons with Alabama after transferring from Georgia.

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93. Baltimore Ravens: Jermaine Burton, WR, Alabama

94. San Francisco 49ers: Kiran Amegadjie, OT, Yale

95. Buffalo Bills (from Kansas City): Tanor Bortolini, OC, Wisconsin

96. Jacksonville Jaguars: Jeremiah Trotter Jr., LB, Clemson

97. Chicago Bears: Brandon Coleman, OT, TCU

98. Pittsburgh Steelers (from Philadelphia): T’Vondre Sweat, DT, Texas

99. Los Angeles Rams: Roman Wilson, WR, Michigan

100. Washington Commanders (from San Francisco): Leonard Taylor, DL, Miami

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Cher, Dave Matthews Band and A Tribe Called Quest Join Rock Hall of Fame

Mary J. Blige and Ozzy Osbourne were also voted in, but Sinead O’Connor, who died last year at 56, did not make the cut.

By Ben Sisario

Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Frampton and Mary J. Blige are part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2024, along with Dave Matthews Band, Kool & the Gang, Foreigner and A Tribe Called Quest, the hall announced on Sunday.

The latest crop of stars will officially join the pantheon in a ceremony on Oct. 19 at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, where the hall’s affiliated museum is also located.

The 39th annual group of inductees matches the hall’s genre and demographic spread of recent years, with a pop diva (Cher), a metal idol (Osbourne), a top funk band of 1970s and ’80s vintage (Kool & the Gang), a couple of ’90s hip-hop and R&B heroes (Blige, Tribe) and rock mainstays from the boomer (Frampton, Foreigner) and Gen X (Matthews) eras.

Of those artists, four were elevated to the hall on their first nomination: Cher, Foreigner, Frampton and Kool & the Gang. Osbourne was nominated for the first time as a solo act, though he had joined the hall as part of Black Sabbath in 2006. The Rock Hall has come under increasing pressure in recent years to diversify its ranks with more women and artists of color, and has made progress in that regard, though some critics say it is not enough .

“Rock ’n’ roll is an ever-evolving amalgam of sounds that impacts culture and moves generations,” John Sykes, chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said in a statement. “This diverse group of inductees each broke down musical barriers and influenced countless artists that followed in their footsteps.”

Seven acts that were nominated in February did not make the cut: Mariah Carey, Jane’s Addiction, Oasis, Sade, Eric B. & Rakim, Lenny Kravitz and, perhaps most surprisingly, Sinead O’Connor, whose death last year , at age 56, elicited a global outpouring of grief and a reconsideration of her place in rock history.

The hall will also honor the blues musicians Alexis Korner, John Mayall and Big Mama Thornton with the musical influence award, while Jimmy Buffett, Dionne Warwick, the MC5 and the Motown producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield will receive an honor for musical excellence. Suzanne de Passe, a film and television producer who was a longtime executive at Motown, will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.

Artists become eligible for nomination 25 years after the release of their first recording. The nominations are voted on by more than 1,000 music historians, industry professionals and inducted artists.

This year, close watchers of the Rock Hall’s opaque voting process had anticipated the arrival of at least a couple of this year’s inductees.

One is Frampton, the English-born guitarist and singer-songwriter, who played in the band Humble Pie in the late 1960s and early ’70s and then had a successful solo career, most notably with his monster hit double-LP “Frampton Comes Alive!” (1976). At last year’s ceremony, Sheryl Crow had Frampton join her onstage, a seeming endorsement.

And Cher essentially made her own case when she noted on an episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show” in December that she has had No. 1 songs — as part of Sonny and Cher, or on her own — in each of the last seven decades but was not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

“Wait, are you serious?” Clarkson said.

“I wouldn’t be in it now if they gave me a million dollars,” Cher answered . “I’m never going to change my mind. They can just go you-know-what themselves.”

Ben Sisario covers the music industry. He has been writing for The Times since 1998. More about Ben Sisario

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