These are activities our students are completing using some of the links from our rock and mineral page.
Please send any other ideas or activities you have used to share with others. I will include them on this page.JM janmille@arthur.k12.il.us

In your group make a rock and mineral alphabet book.Use any of the sites on the rocks and minerals page which give information about rocks. Complete one page for each letter of the alphabet. Draw and color your rock or mineral to make it look as real as possible, or print a picture from the internet for some of your entries.Try to find as much of the following information for each of your entries as you can.

1. Name:
2. Where found:
3. Uses:
4. What type of rock:
5. Color:
6. Streak color:
7. Hardeness:
8. Other information:

Using the above site, look through the rock hound collection safety slide show.
Answer the questions on the question sheet as you do, then take the safety quiz. If you earn the safety certificate you may print it out. Be sure to hand in your safety question worksheet.

1. Tell 2 different ways to label and bring rocks home safely.
2. When should you wear: a hard hat? safety goggles?
3. What should you know about plants before you go collecting?
4. What kind of clothes should you wear? Why?
5. Tell about the tools you might use.
6. When should you get permission to hunt rocks?
7. List 10 things you should take with you on a rock hunt and why you should take each item.

1. I am a kind of glass with little pockets of air. I am made from lava.
2. I am sedimentary rock from quarty and feldspar often in found in layers.
3. I'm made from clay and used to make bricks.
4. I am very sharp and am actually a type of glass.
5. I am so light I may float in water.
6. I am striped because my grains were flattened by hear and pressure.
7. I am used in monuments and trim on buildings.
8. I am left after sea water evaporated and you might make a mold from me.
9. I am also made from evaporated seawater and animal shells. I'm used in buildings.
10. I can be made from many different types of rock and am metamorphic.

1. Choose 25 people and ask them for their birthday month. Keep track of your answers with tally marks.
2. Make a graph showing the number of birthdays in each month.
3. Draw or find a picture of the birthstone for each month and write a little about it.
4. Use the catalog to find jewelry for 3 of your people. What would you buy each of them? Be sure it is their birthstone. How much money would it cost you?

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