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Tips & Comments: Earth Materials

The links below lead to full descriptions of methods and sites that KSN staff and teachers recommend related to Earth Materials.

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Find Rock Samples for the Classroom
Terrific, practical tips on finding good samples of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks in your own community, mostly for free!

Guest Speakers and Field Trips
This listing features lots of innovative suggestions for possible classroom guests and easy, local field trips.

Pebbles, Sand, and Silt Tips
Teacher from the the Colorado Springs School District offer their first-hand tips for working with the FOSS Pebbles, Sand, and Silt kit.

The Franklin Institute gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the National Science Foundation and Unisys Corporation.

The Franklin Institute is the Demonstration Site for the Eisenhower Mid-Atlantic Consortium, providing science and math resources for teachers.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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