Science, technology, environment, and society and relationship to another. Technology skills using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Internet. Language arts-writing and communicating effectively. Students will learn how these elements are produced and changed by natural forces as well as their uses. Students interests will rise when using multimedia to explore about their minerals.
Many students think that minerals are found only in nonliving objects, such as rocks or soil.
Minerals are also found in living things but are not alive, only as and element or chemical compound. All organisms need minerals to live and grow. They get the minerals from food and water, usually in the form of oxides or as elements. Students will work in cooperative groups and do a laboratory activity to identify minerals by luster, hardness, cleavage, and streak. Students will design and create a crystal garden observing and comparing growth of several types of crystals.