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Rocks and Minerals Collection

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Resources in “Rocks and Minerals” Collection

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GeoMysteries

Help Rex solve three mysteries about rocks, fossils and minerals. An excellent test of what the student know about how rocks are formed!

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Mineral Gallery

Provides picture of mineral, and lists the minerals: color, luster, transparency, crystal habits, cleavage, fracture, hardness, streak test.

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Mineral Information Institute

A comprehensive site with many printable lesson plans and background information for the teacher.

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Minerology 4 Kids

The BEST Place to Learn about Rocks and Minerals

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Rock Hounding

Activities for beginning rock hounds

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Rock Hunters

Lesson plan, work sheets and web links that explain rocks and minerals. K-2

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Rock Solid Journal Article
Rocks and Mineral Slide Show

Welcome to the "Rocks and Minerals" slide show. To navigate your way through this slide show you need to click on the mineral and rock groups located directly under the text. Then you need to click on the small photos of the different rocks and minerals to view the larger photos. When you want to return to the index page click on the "Index Page" button. If you want to move to a different group(Minerals 1, Minerals 2, Igneous Rocks, Metamorphic Rocks, Igneous Rocks, and Sedimentary Rocks) clic

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Rocks and Minerals

Detailed text documents, links and lesson plans.

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Rocks For Kids

Text-based site that answers many questions about rocks.

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The Early Years: Rocks Tell a Story Journal Article