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Minerals
4
Kids
contains
four
Web-based
activities
offered
for
K-12
Education
by
the
Mineralogical
Society
of
America
(MSA).
These
activities
are
entitled:
Minerals
in
Your
House,
Mineral
Groups,
Mineral
Properties,
and
All
About
Crystals.
Also
included
are
links
to
Mineral
Games,
the
Rock
Cycle
diagram
that
leads
to
descriptions
of
the
three
rock
types,
and
Ask-A-Mineralogist
that
enables
the
user
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This
site
is
a
joint
effort
of
NOAA
Research
and
the
College
of
Education
at
the
University
of
South
Alabama.
The
goal
of
the
site
is
to
provide
middle
school
science
students
and
teachers
with
research
and
investigation
experiences
using
on-line
resources.
This
unit
provides
information
and
activities
about
the
Sun,
and
solar
events.
Events
such
as
solar
flares,
coronal
holes,
solar
winds,
and
others
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This
lab
investigates
the
exchange
of
carbon
dioxide
between
the
atmosphere
and
the
ocean's
surface.
It
is
based
on
the
fact
that
carbon
dioxide
dissolves
in
the
ocean
and
provides
the
source
of
that
plants
and
plankton
living
in
the
ocean
rely
on
for
photosynthesis.
Students
will
discover
that
the
amount
of
carbon
dioxide
the
ocean
can
contain
depends
on
the
temperature
of
the
water
and
its
salinity
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This
article
explains
how
the
first
astronauts
on
Mars
will
be
required
to
find
the
resources
they
need
to
live
on
and
to
explore
on
the
Red
Planet
itself,
since
the
ability
of
spaceships
to
carry
cargo
is
currently
quite
limited.
Scientists
are
learning
how
to
use
carbon
dioxide,
the
most
abundant
gas
in
Mars'
atmosphere,
to
harvest
rocket
fuel
and
water
from
the
red
planet.
When
carbon
dioxide
becomes
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This
activity
relates
to
the
process
of
igneous
rock
formation
by
the
cooling
of
magma.
It
can
be
used
to
illustrate
how
the
rate
at
which
molten
rock
cools
affects
the
size
of
the
crystals
that
form
within
the
solid
rock
-
rapid
cooling
producing
small
crystals,
slower
cooling
producing
larger
ones.
Hot,
saturated
solutions
of
lead
iodide
are
cooled
at
different
rates.
The
solution
that
cools
faster
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This
site
is
a
joint
effort
of
NOAA
Research
and
the
College
of
Education
at
the
University
of
South
Alabama.
The
goal
of
the
site
is
to
provide
middle
school
science
students
and
teachers
with
research
and
investigation
experiences
using
on-line
resources.
In
this
unit
students
investigate
ozone
as
a
gas
and
a
major
component
of
the
Earth's
atmosphere.
Students
use
information
to
explain
ozone
depletion,
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This
site
contains
photographs
of
pseudomorph
minerals
and
an
explanation
of
the
formation
of
pseudomorphs.
Pseudomorph
literally
means
false
form
and
is
used
in
mineralogy
to
indicate
that
a
mineral
has
the
outward
appearance
of
a
different
mineral.
Pseudomorph
photographs
at
this
site
include
filling
pseudomorphs,
replacement
pseudomorphs,
and
encrustation
pseudomorphs.
Some
examples
shown
include
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This lesson introduces students to the clod, a device that uses the principles of solubility for the measurement of water currents. In this activity, students will be able to describe factors that affect the solubility of a chemical substance in seawater and explain how information on the solubility of a substance can be used to measure water currents.
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In
this
activity
students
discover
that
the
types
and
relative
proportion
of
minerals
that
occur
together
in
a
rock
tell
scientists
the
story
of
how
that
rock
was
formed.
They
also
learn
that
rocks
are
named
based
on
how
they
formed
and
by
the
types,
amounts,
and
sizes
of
minerals
in
the
rocks.
Students
will
realize
that
one
of
the
most
important
skills
a
geologist
needs
when
studying
a
rock
is
the
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This demonstration of average density uses understandable units of total mass and volume of the Earth. The required supplies are a can of beer or soda and a 1-pound bag of pretzels. By imagining, for instance, 4.4 bags of pretzels fitting into a beer/
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