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Element of Month Lithum Boreal v2
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All About Elements: Lithium
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Fun Facts About… Lithium 1. Elemental Lithium can float in mineral oil!
2. Lithium was one of the elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. The other tw...
BS Element of Month Carbon IA
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All About Elements: Carbon
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Fun Facts About… Carbon 1. Graphine, an allotrope of carbon, is the
strongest, thinnest, and best conductor of heat known to man. It was created by scientists using ordin...
Gneiss
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Gneiss Type:
Metamorphic; regional. Texture/Appearance:
Foliated, often with distinct banding (segregation) of minerals; some preferred orientation in micas (platy) or hornblende (prismatic crystals). Medium t...
1462 Element of Month Beryllium BS
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All About Elements: Beryllium
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Fun Facts About… Beryllium 1. Prior to being named beryllium, this element
was known as glucinium, which originated from the Greek word glykys, meaning sweet. It w...
Element of Month Lithum Boreal
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All About Elements: Lithium
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Fun Facts About… Lithium 1. Elemental Lithium can float in mineral oil!
2. Lithium was one of the elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. The other tw...
grade 1 temperature probe-final
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Ants Go Marching Grade 1: Temperature Probe
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In this inquiry based activity, students will observe and record the effects of temperature on the
behavior o...
WS Element of Month Fluorine boreal final v2
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All About Elements: Fluorine
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Boreal’s All About Elements Series Building Real-World Connections to the Building Blocks of Chemistry
The periodic table of elements is an essential part of any chemistr...
Granite
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Granite Type:
Igneous, intrusive. Texture/Appearance:
Massive, medium to coarse-grained; holocrystalline, sometimes porphyritic. Color:
White, light gray, pink, or red. Mineralogy/Chemistry:
Felsic; composed primarily of q...
Nepheline
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Nepheline (Na,K) AlSiO4 Crystallography:
Hexagonal; 6. Rarely in small prismatic crystals with base; more commonly massive, compact, and in embedded grains.
Physical Properties: Cleavage: {1010} distinct. Frac...
Gr 1 light probe
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Will the Light Shine? Grade 1: Light Probe
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Students will observe the effects of different materials on light waves.
This activity uses the WARD’s Single ...
Pegmatitie
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Pegmatite Type:
Igneous; intrusive. Texture/Appearance:
Very coarse-grained, marked by intergrowth of large (up to 1 cm) crystals. In some instances, individual crystals may grow up to several feet.
Color: Varies; mostly l...
force probe K
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Push or Pull? Grade K: Force Probe
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Students use forces constantly in their day-to-day lives. A force is simply a push or a pull on an
object. In this act...
Hornblende
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Hornblende (Ca,Na)2-3 (Mg,Fe,Al)5 SI6 (Si,Al)2 O22 (OH)2 (Amphibole Group) Crystallography:
Monoclinic: 2/m. Crystals prismatic usually terminated by {011}. May be columnar to fibrous; coarse-to fine-granular.
Physical Pro...
Limestone
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Limestone Type:
Sedimentary; chemical or clastic. Texture/Appearance:
Fine to coarsely crystalline; varieties may be dense, compact and graded to brecciated, styliolitic, or oolitic. Stratification usually ind...
Tuff
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Tuff Type:
Igneous; extrusive (pyroclastic). Texture/Appearance:
Clastic texture with angular rock and mineral fragments and lapilli mixed with fine-grained volcanic ash, partly cemented by sedimentary materia...
Arkose
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Arkose Type:
Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance:
Usually coarse-grained, sometimes with pebbles. Angular to subangular, poorly to moderately well-sorted sand grains. No Fossils.
Color: Gray, pink or redd...
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