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NEW! 2007 Rocks and Minerals Exam. This exam, administered at the Southern Colorado Regional Competition on March 3, 2007, includes 12 stations, participant response sheet, answer key, and full color photographs of each station. This product provides a valuable opportunity for your participants to experience a very effective, simulated Rocks and Minerals Exam at minimal cost.

Cost: $19.95. Product # 206.

2006 Rocks and Minerals Exam. This exam includes 12 stations, participant response sheet, answer key, and full color photographs of each station. This product provides an opportunity for participants to experience a very effective, simulated Rocks and Minerals Exam at minimal cost.

Cost: $19.95. Product # 205.

12-Station Rock Kit. This kit contains a CD with three PowerPoint presentations entitled "Introduction to Rocks" addressing each of the three classes of rocks; three 12-Station Labs with up to ten questions each; a rock kit containing 30 labeled specimens; coaches guide; participant response sheets, and answer keys. Many coaches whose participants used this kit during the 2006 competition year reported how effective the instruction and information proved to their teams' success. CD for Windows only.

Cost: $44.95. Product #201

2007 Deluxe Minerals Kit. Provide your Science Olympiad participants a rare opportunity to handle high quality mineral specimens similar to those appearing in many competitions. Includes Agate, Albite, Amazonite, Apatite, Aragonite, Azurite, Barite, Bornite, Calcite (5 specimens: amber crystal, optical crystal, massive - amber, blue, green), Celestite, Chalcedony, Chalcopyrite, Chalk (rock), Native Copper, Corundum, Crystalline Dolomite, Epidote, Feldspar, Fluorite (2 specimens: massive and octahedral), Galena, Garnet, Goethite, Satin Spar Gypsum, Selenite Gypsum, Halite, Hematite, Jasper, Lepidolite, Malachite, Obsidian (rock), Opal, Pyrite, Amethyst Quartz, Citrine Quartz, Quartz Crystal, Sodalite, Sphalerite, Staurolite, Sulfur, Topaz, Tourmaline, Tremolite, Ulexite.

2007 Deluxe Minerals Kit

Product # 204.

Cost: $199.95

 

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NEW! 2008 Deluxe Minerals Kit. Provide your Science Olympiad participants a rare opportunity to handle high quality mineral specimens similar to those appearing in many competitions. Includes Agate (geode), Almandine Garnet, Amazonite, Apatite, Aragonite, Azurite/Malachite (associated minerals), Calcite (6 specimens: blue, brown, crystal, green, honey, ice), Celestite, Chalcedony, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite (3 specimens: massive - dark in color, massive - green in color, octahedron), Galena, Gypsum (2 specimens: crystal and wand), Halite, Hematite, Lepidolite (2 specimens: massive and flat), Muscovite, Pyrite, Quartz (3 specimens: amethyst, citrine, crystal), Sodalite, Sphalerite, Staurolite, Sulfur, Topaz, Tourmaline, Ulexite.

2008 Deluxe Minerals Kit

Product # 207.

Cost: $179.95

 

BarCharts Quickstudy: World's Best Selling Laminated Quick Reference Guides (Cheat Sheets):
							Rocks and Minerals

Pictorial Guide to Minerals
A very helpful reference for participants to include in their Resource Notebooks. Laminated and hole-punched.
Topics covered include:
+ crystal form & cleavage
+ rock cycle
+ igneous rocks
+ sedimentary rocks
+ metamorphic rocks
+ Moh's scale
+ Bowen's reaction series
   and much more
Price: $5.95. Product # 202.