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Beginning to identify minerals
Source info:
| Author: | Earth Learning Idea |
|---|---|
| Date: | 2015-05-04 20:52:00 |
| Blog: | Earth Learning Idea  |
| URL: | http://earthlearningidea.blogspot.com/2015/05/beginning-to-dientify-minerals.html |
Summary:
The ELI 'Be a mineral expert 1; beginning to identify minerals' introduces colour, habit, lustre and cleavage as ways of identifying one mineral from another. The activity uses simple visual tests to identify a set of ‘unknown’ minerals. This is the first in a series of activities on minerals which can be used in a variety of lessons, ranging from the nature of minerals as the ‘building blocks’Content analysis:
Keywords:
activities, activity, ‘building blocks, ’ minerals., cleavage, Earth materials, ELI, habit, introduces, lessons, lustre, mineral expert, series, set, simple visual tests, variety, ways
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