Rocks Minerals and Fossils

Videos, Special Kits






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Item # Item Description Price
petroglyph



325
Petroglyph Kit - Make your own petroglyphs just like those left behind by ancient cultures. This great kit includes rock blanks, a chipping tool, examples of petroglyphs and educational information with instructions. $ 8.00

B600
Stories in Stone - Stories in Stone is a hands-on activity book for grades 4-9 developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California. The 8 study sessions outlined in Stories in Stone helps students learn how rocks and minerals are formed by observing physical and chemical properties.

  • Session 1: Students learn about some of the properties of rocks and minerals.
  • Session 2: Learn the difference between a rock and a mineral.
  • Session 3: Learn about crystalline structure of rocks and minerals by making models of them.
  • Sessions 4 - 6: The origins of the three types of rocks.
  • Session 7: Use clay to make a model of the rock cycle.
  • Session 8: Students use their new knowledge to separate rocks from minerals and to determine if rocks are igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary in origin.
$20.00

KSS200
Stories in Stone Classroom Kit - Includes:
  • Stories in Stone (item# B600)
  • 32 magnifying lenses
  • 100 rock and mineral samples including 10 pieces each of basalt, conglomerate, galena, granite, halite, obsidian, quartz crystals, schist, shale and slate; enough for 10 work groups of students.
You save $10 off the regular price of the components of the kit if purchased separately. Click on the kit photo to take a look.
$84.00

KSS201
Stories in Stone Single Student Kit - Includes:
  • Stories in Stone (item# B600)
  • 1 magnifying lenses
  • 10 rock and mineral samples - 1 piece each of basalt, conglomerate, galena, granite, halite, obsidian, quartz crystals, schist, shale and slate.
$29.00

KEW100
"How the Earth Works Kit" -This great kit includes the "How the Earth Works" book plus the 17 rocks, minerals and crystals and 8 fossils referred to in it. A magnifying glass is included. Click here to go to our book page for details about the contents of the book. The rocks included in this kit are limestone, sandstone, obsidian, granite, shale, slate, pumice and marble. Minerals include talc, apatite, hematite, pyrite, lodestone and mica. Crystals include optical calcite, quartz crystal and amethyst. Fossils include a shark tooth, amber, an ammonite, a snail, dinosaur bone, dinosaur egg shell, a trilobite and a belemnite. All specimens are numbered to correspond with listings and numbering in the book. $35.00

B700
Rocks, Minerals and Gems Stereogram Book - Don't have an actual rock specimen to look at? This book is the answer. Used in combination with our stereoscope (sold separately -item A110 - on our supplies page), the photos of rock, mineral and gem specimens will jump off the page. The 64 page 8.5" x 11" soft cover book also features stereo photos of lunar rocks and the six crystal systems. $20.00

B700G
Rocks, Minerals and Gems Stereogram Book With Stereoscope - Everything you need to view the specimens pictured in stereo. $25.00

V100
"Out of the Rock" - a 30-minute video produced by the US Bureau of Mines. How rocks and minerals are formed; how we look for them, mine them, use and recycle them. Also discusses environmental effects of extracting minerals from the earth. $10.00

KMH100
Mineral History ClassPak - Kit contains (1) "Out of the Rock" video (see description above); (2) historical highlights about the role of rocks and minerals in the development of civilization and (3) 15 large three-inch (3") sized specimens of rocks and minerals discussed in the video including bauxite, chromite, coal, galena, gypsum, hematite, earthy hematite, ilmenite, kaolinite, phosphatic limestone, limonite, malachite, obsidian, sulphur and trona. Everything comes in a convenient, easy to carry, storage carton. For a list of specimens available from the Rockman McLean Trading Co, visit our Specimens page. $115.00

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