Minerals, Rocks, and Resources

USGS rock and mineral resources:  http://education.usgs.gov/common/secondary.htm#rocks

Mineral Information Institute:  www.mii.org

PRI “Teacher-Friendly Guide to the Northeast”

     Rocks:  http://www.priweb.org/ed/TFGuide/NE/rocks/ne_rocks_main.htm

     Non-mineral Resources:  http://www.priweb.org/ed/TFGuide/NE/nonmin/ne_nonmin_main.htm

Volcano World

     Lessons (ch. 4 “Rocks and Minerals”): http://www.volcanoworld.org/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/lesson.html

     “Minerals, Magmas, and Volcanic Rocks”:  http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/rocks.html

Mineralogical Society’s “Mineralogy 4 Kids”:  http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/K12/K_12.html

AMNH “Rocks in Your Cabinet”:  http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/kids/kids_hope/rocksincab.html

American Field Guide “Rock Cycle: The Story of a Rock”:  http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/teachers/rocks/rocks_sum.html

Drexel University Engineering Geology rock images: http://www.drexel.edu/coe/enggeo/rocks.html

Geology of New Jersey: http://hurri.kean.edu/~rkroll/geonj/geonj.html

Women in Mining Classroom Activities:  http://www.womeninmining.org/activity.htm

Sterling Hill Mining Museum: http://www.sterlinghill.org/

SEPM Online Activities:  http://www.beloit.edu/~SEPM/activity-age.html

 “Separating Mixtures: How We Concentrate Natural Materials” http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/jesei/separate/index.htm

“Building Stones of the United States”: http://stonewall.nist.gov/