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020-Geologic Samples w/Sawed Faces Grades 5-8
Mystery includes rock sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: A hand-specimen with one obviously sawed surface making a, flat face.TEACHING OBJECTIVES: To sharpen re ...
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022-Drill Core Grades 5-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A piece of rock drill coreTEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To show a man-made rock shape, a drill ...
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027-Mudwasp Nest Grades 5-10
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A mud wasp nest(s) clearly showing the wasp burrows. TEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To help st ...
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028-Asphalt Grades 5-10
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A piece of aggregate asphalt that clearly shows gravel and tarTEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To ...
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033-Slag Grades 3-5
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A piece of slag (ideally it should show a bubbly texture)TEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To show ...
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043-Geologic Samples marked with Numbers Grades 4-10
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: One or more rock specimens with sample numbers on them, and with sawed facesTEACHING OBJ ...
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062-Concrete Grades 4-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A piece of aggregate concrete clearly showing gravel or pebblesTEACHING OBJECTIVES: - T ...
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078-Dendrite, Not a fossil Grades 4-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A slab of slate, shale, or other type of rock showing a bedding plane that contains a cle ...
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081-Sand, Three Kinds Grades 3-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: - Black sand from beaches in Hawaii and derived from volcanic basalt that has been ground ...
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085-Slickensides Grades 3-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A rock clearly showing slicke ...
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090-Oil Sand Grades 3-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A piece of oil sand that clearly smells li ...
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092-Copper Ore Grades 4-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: ° A piece of COPPER ORE showing blebs of reddish-brown copper, or reddish, brassy bits o ...
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093-Weathered Rock Grades 4-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: A piece of weathered rock, one that is crumbly, light-weight, rusty-looking, but tha ...
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096-Gold Ore Grades 3-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A sample of GOLD ORE TEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To introduce gold ore -- To introduc ...
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102-Lithographic Limestone Grades 3-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A piece of lithographic limestone, preferably cut so that its extremely fine-grained homogen ...
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108-Drag Fold Grades 1-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A piece of rock showing drag folds in thin-bedded sedimentsTEACHING OBJECTIVE: - To introd ...
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112-Beach in a bag Grades K-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: A bag of sand with many shells, etc. in itTEACHING OBJECTIVES: To introduce the concept ...
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113-Red Encrusting Foraminifera Grades 6-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions.SAMPLE: -- A piece of coral, rock or shell encrusted with the red foraminifera, Homotrema rubrum (Sa ...
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116-Gastropods,left and right handed Grades 1-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions.SAMPLE: -- Various species of left and right-handed gastropods, or right-handed gastropods only (lef ...
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118-Shale, Poker Chips Grades 3-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - Pieces of poker chip shale from drill core. (breaks into flat, round pieces, like poker chi ...
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119-Cobbles,Rappahannock River,VA
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions.SAMPLE: -- Several rounded stream cobbles from the Rappahannock River, VirginiaTEACHING OBJECTIVE: -- ...
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120-Cobbles, Major River
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions.SAMPLE: - Several rounded stream cobblesTEACHING OBJECTIVE: - To introduce the concepts of erosion and ...
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131-Items used by Early People
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: -- A piece of raw turquoise, copper ore, or other green, or blue-green mineral -- Several sh ...
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132-Silver ore
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions.SAMPLE: -- A sample of silver oreTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To introduce silver ore -- To introduce ...
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133-Umber,Weathered Copper Ore
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions.SAMPLE: A piece of Umber, a yellow-brown manganese oxide that results from the weathering of a copper ...
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141-Agate
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: -- A sample of plain, banded, or moss agate that DOES NOT FIZZ IN ACIDTEACHING OBJECTIVES: ...
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144-Chert or Flint with Knapping Stone
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A fist-sized, rounded cobble for chipping off pieces of chert, or flint A piece of chert o ...
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148-Crystals, Generic
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: -- A piece of rock showing obvious crystalsTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To introduce crystals ...
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158-Steel Slag
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A piece of blast furnace iron ore slag, or steel slag, may be fresh or weatheredTEACHING OB ...
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159-Steel Slag
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: Blast-furnace slag from iron ore smelting TEACHING OBJECTIVES: To introduce the slag and ...
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160-Cobbles and Coral, St John USVI
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- Two cobbles from St. John, US Virgin Islands (see Figure 2) One cobble composed of ...
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162-Loess, Alaska
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A bag of loess from Fairbanks, AlaskaTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To introduce the windblow ...
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163-Onyx Marble
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A sample of onyx marble that is compact, banded, translucent, and WILL FIZZ IN ACID. Th ...
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175-Modern Sand Dollar
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: One or two modern sand dollar shellsTEACHING OBJECTIVE: To introduce the concept of fo ...
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176-Banded Iron Formation, Precambrian Age
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A piece of Banded Iron Formation from the Upper Peninsula of MichiganTEACHING OBJECTIVES: ...
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179-Banded iron Formation, Precambrian Age
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A piece of Banded Iron Formation from the Upper Peninsula of MichiganTEACHING OBJECTIVES: ...
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180-Cave Travertine
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A sawed slice, or piece of travertine cut or broken across the bandingTEACHING OBJECTIVES: ...
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188-Fossil Shell Hash, fragments broken by the surf Grades 1-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. MYSTERY SAMPLE: -- Pieces of broken shell, etc. from an ocean beach or near shore environment -- Clea ...
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200-Cliff Swallow Nest
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - Part of a Cliff Swallow nest clearly showing the nubbly outside texture and the thick con ...
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202-Granite, radiometric dating
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: Coarsely crystalline granite or pegmatite showing large, pink orthoclase crystals (picture ...
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203-Sample with numbers
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: Rock specimens with sample numbers on themTEACHING OBJECTIVES: To encourage students t ...
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204-Rock and Crystal
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A handspeciman of granite that clearly shows grains of quartz -- A quartz crystalTEACHI ...
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224-Drill Core
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A piece of rock drill coreTEACHING OBJECTIVE: - To show a man-made rock shape, a drill co ...
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250-Loess, Matanuska Va, AK Grades 5-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A bag of loess from the Matanuska Valley, AlaskaTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To introduce the ...
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