Hickorywood's Brain Gym

Rocks & Minerals

Rocks and Minerals

Internet Links

Rocks and Minerals
A slide show. Excellent pictures of the various types of rocks and minerals 
and explanations about each.  A great site. There is also a link to 'Volcano 
World'
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Slideindex.html

Canadian Rockhound
Canadain Rockhound Geological Magazine Online. An excellent site with lots 
of 
information.  Take some time to go through this site and do some reading.  
You will learn a lot.
http://www.canadianrockhound.com/junior/index.html

Rock Hounds featuring 'ROCKY'
A very good educational site. Lesson plans and activities for students.
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/index2.html

Rocks
An excellent site developed by Jim Cornish a teacher in Gander Nfld.
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/rock.htm

Volcanoes
Another excellent educational site developed by J.Cornish
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/volcano.htm

Virtual Cave
Do you like to go exploring?  You can take a 'virtual trip' through and 
learn 
about caves here.
http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/index.html

Rocks For Kids
An excellent Canadian website from the Bancroft area [Canada's Mineral 
Capital]
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/TableofContents.html

Rocks
A website from the Us Geological Survey
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/parks/rxmin/rock.html

All About Fossils
Some difficult reading, very detailed and scientific.  Lots of good fossil 
pictures.  Can you find yours here?
http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/groups.shtml

Korea...Mineral Collection of David JEGOU
Wonderful pictures of the rocks and minerals of Korea
http://fuzzy.kaist.ac.kr/~david/special.html

Minerals of Ontario
http://www.ontariominerals.com/

This is a site full of 'details' about minerals.
http://www.galleries.com/

Digging for Information
Use this website to research information about rocks.
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/dig.htm

Become a rock expert here
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/expert/index.html

VOLCANOES
US Geological Survey site about volcanoes on the west coast...eg 
Mt.St.Helen's
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/

Go on a Volcano 'WEBQUEST'
http://www.windarooss.qld.edu.au/Main_Pages/Volcano_Webquest/welcome.htm

Another 'webquest' on volcanoes where you can find 'oodles' of information.
http://www.fairview.k12.il.us/Instructional/Science%205-8/Volcano%20Web%20Quest/Volcano%20Questions.html

Canada's rocks and minerals.  
Canada's Geoscience Heritage...pictures of fossils found all over Canada...5 
webpages of pictures of Canadian minerals
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/geoscience/gemsrocks_e.html

Geo Mysteries
Rock, mineral and fossil mysteries to solve
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/geomysteries/mysteries.html

The Travelling Geologist
If you are interested in 'rocks' visit this website and see pictures of all 
things related to rocks and minerals
http://www.uc.edu/geology/geologylist/

Out of the Rock
A great website for studying rocks and minerals from the National Energy 
Foundation in the US.
http://www.nef1.org/outoftherock/students/index.html

How to make a volcano
great project idea
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_models/models.html

Another excellent website to visit and learn about rocks.  Definitely worth 
a 
visit!
http://www.suelebeau.com/rocks.htm

More on Rocks and Minerals
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/rock.htm

A rocks and minerals website made by 5 students in grades 4 & 5
http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/rocks.htm