Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about rocks and minerals. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and earth science vocabulary, would work well with...

Useful interface and gateway into the research collections of the Department of Mineral Sciences at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Find information, image galleries, exhibits, specimens, and related resources about...

A slideshow, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a short multiple-choice quiz on sedimentary rocks and how they are formed.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Defines the properties of a rock.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Defines the properties of a rock.

Students use geologic maps to learn about rocks and minerals.

Easy-to-understand review of key concepts about rocks and soils, with diagrams, activities, and quiz questions.

Watch a slideshow featuring the makeup and value of fossils and take a quiz on the facts.

Agneta lives in Iceland and loves rocks. Help her learn more about rocks and things rocks are used for.

Learn about minerals and have fun, too, playing Sedimentary, My Dear Watson, Knowledge Nuggets, Mining for Minerals (Interactive), and Minerals Matter. Downloadable features.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about rocks and their properties. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

Teachers find resources connected to the minerals industry of British Columbia, including comprehensive units for all grade levels, with specific curriculum links to provincial curriculum, and integrated science kits.

A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of minerals and how to identify them by their properties.

A slideshow, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a short multiple-choice quiz on metamorphic rocks.

In this amazing interactive tutorial, you'll learn about minerals - the building blocks or rocks and the Earth. We'll talk about what makes something a mineral, and how differences in these minerals let us organize them into different...

Assess your understanding of the three major categories of rocks with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Immediate feedback is provided.

This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...

Students will use their observational skills to examine rocks they find on the exterior of the school building and on the ground on the campus.

This tutorial explains the rock cycle--from beginning to end! It is full of activities, assessments, games, slideshows and all kinds of interactive material. Learn what rocks are made of and how they change from one form to another....

A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of soil and its importance to living things.

A slideshow, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of landforms, some different types, and how they are formed.

This resource features a question and answer session in text format with Mike Rumsey, resident Mineralogist at the Natural History Museum. The questions are directed at understanding what it means to be a Mineralogist and to study rocks...

A video, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a short multiple-choice quiz on what happens during the rock cycle.

A slideshow, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of igneous rocks, how they are formed, and some different types.