Explore Rocks and Minerals!

By Cynthia Light Brown ’83 and Nick Brown. Nomad Press, 2010. An in-depth discussion of how minerals form, teaching readers ages 6–9 all about some of the most interesting and most common minerals. The book also explores how and why the earth changes, introduces kids to fossils and what they tell us about the past and gives suggestions on how to start a collection of rocks, minerals and fossils. Students and teachers can try the experiments and read through the book systematically to get the big picture, or they can pick out projects to try in any order.