Earth Materials

FOSSweb Earth Materials  
Click on the menu bar on the left side of page for additional links and activities.

MSHA Kids' Page 
Comments: Want to know what minerals are mined in each state?  Learn about mining. Pictures show various kinds of mining.   U. S. Dept. of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Admininstration website for kids.

Rock Hounds with Rocky
Learn about igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. View animations on how they are formed. Pictures and descriptions of different types of rocks, slideshow on how to be a rock collector.

Rocks and Minerals Unit  
Some links to try for more pictures and information about rocks.

Rocks & Minerals: Gander Academy
Comments: links to rock cycle, rock identifier,earthquakes, and  igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.

Rocks and Minerals
Facts and photos for reports.

Fossils: Gander Academy
What is a fossil? How do fossils form? Types of fossils, fossil galleries. Links to fossil sites. Sue at the Field Museum 
Learn about Sue, the largest, best preserved T Rex, discovered by Sue Hendrickson in the badlands of South Dakota, and now housed at the Chicago Field Museum.