The 8 study sessions outlined in Stories in Stone helps students learn how rocks and minerals are formed by observing physical and chemical porperties.
Students learn about some of the properties of rocks and minerals.
Students use their new knowledge to separate rocks from minerals and to determine if rocks are igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary in origin. Click on the kit photo to take a look. 1 magnifying lense 10 rock and mineral samples - 1 piece each of basalt, conglomerate, galena, granite, halite, obsidian, quartz crystals, schist, shale and slate. This book is the answer. Shows where deposits are located in the US, hardness etc.