How many of you out there both young and old love rocks and minerals? There is just so much about rocks and minerals to enjoy! There are many amazing cross-curricular connections that can be made while studying rocks and minerals. My Fascinating Minerals A - Z live class is held in the fall, or you can purchase the Fascinating Minerals 8-lesson/unit study from any of NatureGlo's eScience clickable store links below.
Here is a list of some of the great cross-curricular connections made with NatureGlo's eScience rocks and minerals live classes and curriculum.
- Arts & crafts - resource links for making beaded jewelry
- Art - drawing, painting minerals video tutorials from You Tube
- History - creating a timeline showing how humans have used a particular mineral
- Technology - researching how a mineral is used in the latest technology such as cell phones, computers, automobiles
- Geography - Find the best localities in the world where a mineral is mined; finding the closest mines of an interested mineral near a student's local area. Mindat.org is a GREAT online resource to research this. Just type in any mineral in the Mindat.org search bar at the top of the web page. When the mineral's page comes up, scroll to the bottom for a world map and click on any of the pink crystals for mines with that mineral around the world!
- Chemistry - experiments for growing your own crystals
- Mathematics - finding out how much a rock or mineral weighs, it's specific gravity, it's Moh's scale hardness; looking up a minerals crystal system, which is a geometric study
- Spelling - learning to spell rock and mineral names
- Rockhounding - looking for rocks in the student's own backyard and local neighborhood parks, and or local quarries or mines is a simple and great way to get started looking for and collecting rocks
Can't join the live classes? You can look for the Fascinating Minerals A-Z mini course curriculum unit studies at my Teachers Pay Teachers store under the Earth Science tab, my CurrClick.com Rocks & Minerals Curriculum page and here at my Educents store!
You can check out any of my rocks and minerals live classes and HYBRID courses I have open for enrollment now here.
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| Click here to download your FREE Minerals A - D unit study. |
