Recommended Websites - for science content knowledge

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Online education to rocks and collections:
http://www.onlineschools.org/rocks-and-collections
www.windows.ucar.edu/
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/TableofContents.html
http://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/Article/rocks-and-minerals

Defining rocks and minerals:
http://www.42explore.com/rocks.htm

Minerals:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/min_intro.html

Minerals by name:
http://mineral.galleries.com/Minerals/By_Name.htm

Properties and identifying minerals:
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/identification.html#Properties

Color:
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/identification.html#Colour

Luster:
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/identification.html#Luster

Specific gravity:
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/identification.html#Specific

Crystal shape:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/crystal_shapes2.html
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/identification.html#CRYSTAL%20FORM

Cleavage and fractures:
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/identification.html#CLEAVAGE

Hardness scale:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/mohs.html
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/identification.html#Hardness

Rocks:
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/index2.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/rocks_intro.html

Rock cycle:
www.geolsoc.org.uk/rockcycle
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/index2.html
http://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/Article/rocks-and-rock-cycle

Earth's crust: (crust movement)
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/howrocks.html#Crust

Igneous formation:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/ig_intro.html

Volcanoes:
http://whyfiles.org/094quake/index.php?g=2.txt

Sedimentary formation:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/sed_intro.html
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/howrocks.html#Sedimentary

Metamorphic formation:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/meta_intro.html
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/howrocks.html#Metamorphic

Images, information about minerals:
http://www.theimage.com/mineral/minerals1.html

Hands-On Activities -
Salt Volcano:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/volcano.html

Earth Bowl:
http://www.fi.edu/tfi/activity/earth/earth-1.html

Crystal formation:
http://www.fi.edu/tfi/activity/physics/mat-2.html

Grades 4-6, making crystals:
http://earth.google.com/index.html (Download Google Earth)

Assessment:
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/quiz/index.html