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American Geosciences Institute: Materials and Minerals Unit PlanAmerican Geosciences Institute: Materials and Minerals Unit Plan
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American Geosciences Institute
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9th - 10th
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American Geosciences Institute: Materials and Minerals

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Seven hands-on lessons module that allows students to learn about materials and minerals. These inquiry-based explorations investigate properties of materials, where mineral deposits can be found, how deposits are formed, how minerals are mined, mixtures, and types of minerals. Provides links to outside websites and resources that will be useful for the investigations.

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Concepts

mixtures, rocks, minerals

Additional Tags

bronze age, iron age, mineral explorations, mineral extraction, mixing materials, natural materials, properties of materials, properties of minerals, stone age, types of minerals, investigating earth systems: materials and minerals, material properties

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

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