Transcript Thank You For Our WONDERFUL Mineral Kits!

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Rocks and minerals of Georgia
A magnifying glass
Two streak plates
A glass plate
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several large Georgia maps, including ones
that showed the location of economic rocks
and minerals and ones showing
physiographic features
8 team instructional notebooks that guided
us through our study of
Georgia’s rocks and minerals
We learned that we use
minerals in everyday life. They are
important to the way we live because they
are used in everyday items such as jewelry,
cars, household appliances, and technology.
We also learned that knowing how to
identify minerals can help us in later life. Say
we want to become scientists and we were
sent off to a site where we discovered a
mineral that we did not know, we would have
to use the mineral properties to classify this
mineral. These
minerals are very
important.
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Mineral Properties (color, luster, streak,
crystal form, hardness, cleavage/fracture,
density, and other useful properties)
Mineral Identification (We identified minerals
by mineral properties.)
Occurrence and use of minerals. (Minerals
such as pyrite, gold, and copper are used is
electronic devices.)
Once we knew about and could identify many of
Georgia’s important minerals, we used the kits to
become familiar with a number of the rocks found
in Georgia.
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Rocks are classified by
how they are formed.
Georgia’s geologic
history gives us
igneous, sedimentary,
and metamorphic
rocks.
Georgia can be divided
into different provinces
characterized by the
kinds of rock found
there.
We worked in teams
with the teacher available as
we needed her.
We learned more about
rocks and minerals and…
learned more about
working together.
Thank you to the Georgia Mineral Society
for supply the funding for our Georgia rock
and mineral kits. Thank you too to Jim Haege
for the many specimens he supplied to us.
These kits helped us further understand
mineral and rock identification and so much
more.
Kyran and Annmarie
for Mrs. Pearson’s 6th grade
Venture and Advanced Content Earth Science classes
East Paulding Middle School