HIT: Recommended Rocks & Minerals Sites

[Nancy Goss <GOSSO@AOL.COM>]

Thanks for all the great sites which were recommended! The science teacher couldn't 
believe how good some of them were.
Interesting Rock and Mineral Links
http://luigi.calpoly.edu/StudWeb95/Rocks/ref.html

Petrographic Workshop
http://pong.igpp.ucla.edu/pet/pet_intro.html

Rocks and Minerals
http://204.112.18.6/schools/princessmargaret/changing_earth/
rocks_minerals/pm_rocks.html

Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection
http://galaxy.einet.net/images/gems/gems-icons.html

Mineralogy Database http://web.wt.net/~daba/Mineral/
--Patricia Moore

http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/scihc.html#geolo
--Walter Minkel

Try Science and Technology. at this website:
http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/supurl1.html
 --Saranne Gans

Our 6th graders study this, so there is a collection of links on our 6th
grade home page. You can access it at
http://www.gmrsd.com/Middle/Grade6/rocksminerals.htm.
--Cynthia Cassidy


Go to http://lps.lexingtonma.org/Libdept/grade4.html#rocks4
--Caryn Werlin

http://www.er.monroe.edu/academics/kimmel/earth_science_links.htm


Look at the Smithsonian Gen & Mineral Collection at
ELECTRONIC
ACCESS:
Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection
http://galaxy.einet.net/images/gems/gems-icons.html
--Gene Menicucci




--Melissa Davis



http://greatsouth.net/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/scstore/shophome.html

 http://greatsouth.net/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/scstore/shophome.html
 and click on the alphabetical list for your mineral. Click on a
thumbnail to see a larger picture with a description.</P>


http://www.greatsouth.net/minerals.html">http://www.greatsouth.net/

minerals.html


Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection at
 http://galaxy.einet.net/images/gems/gems-icons.html">http://galaxy.
einet.net/images/gems/gems-icons.html

http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/mineral/images/minpic_frame0.html

http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/mineral/images/minpic_frame0.html
has really great photos

The Mineral Gallery at
 http://mineral.galleries.com

collection of mineral descriptions, images, and specimens

GeoScience: K-12 Resources at <

 http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~johnstos/geosci.html">http://www.cuug.a

b.ca:8001/~johnstos/geosci.html
has lots of wonderful links to rocks &amp; mineral sites in addition
to other geoscience sites


Rocky the Rock Hound

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/index2.html">http://www.fi.e

du/fellows/payton/rocks/index2.html

great links from the Franklin Institute plus Teacher resources!</P>


Rockhounding Arkansas at

http://rockhoundingar.com/">http://rockhoundingar.com
Arkansas quartz crystals, rocks and minerals, and diamonds are famous
around the world. Here is the authoritative guide to rock and mineral

collecting

Here are two we like:
The Mineral Gallery

http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/


Minerals A-Z

http://www.minerals.net/
--Adam Janowski


Nancy Goss
School Library Media Specialist
Amity Junior High Orange
100 Ohman Avenue
Orange, CT 06477
GOSSO@aol.com

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