Rocks and Minerals for Sale

Rocks and Minerals Specimens, Kits, Labs and Activities

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Two Complete Rocks and Minerals Exams

These exams, featuring photographed images, are revised editions of those sold over the past several years as 2007 and 2008 R & M Exams. Hints have been included in the text to assist in identifying those specimens difficult to identify by images alone. No need to print the images as they may be viewed directly on a computer monitor. Rules for this event have changed very little during the past 15 years or so, so you needn't be concerned about receiving 'dated materials'.
Product # RM00007
CD – Cost: $12.95

Buy Rock Kit

Buy ESES Rock Kit CD

Rock Kit Activities with Specimens:

Kit includes 30 of the 34 rock specimens included on the NSO R & M list, plus a CD containing three introductory PowerPoint-formatted presentations, 35 instructional stations, and 36 lab stations to provide detailed instruction for the rock specimens of the Rocks and Minerals Event.

Product # RM00001
Cost: $45.95

*ESES* Rock Kit Activities CD:
Does your team have access to the Rocks and Minerals Kit purchased from Earth Science Educators Supply during the past several years or the current Rocks and Minerals Kit purchased through VWR? If so, this CD is for you. This CD includes the same activities as those described above, but with numbers matching those on the Official NSO list.

Product # RM00003
CD – Cost: $14.95

Printed Card Set

CD version

Rocks & Minerals Card Set:

This 47 question/answer card set, featuring a total of 188 ques-tions, may serve as either a 'stand-alone' activity or as a substitute for the 'R' category when playing 'The Game of EARTH'. This card set may serve as either a review activity prior to testing student knowledge or as a preparatory activity for the Science Olympiad 'Rocks and Minerals" event.

The product is available in two formats: (1) one printed, ready-to-play set or (2) CD Version to permit printing multiple sets.

Product # RM00004 - Printed Card Set: $3.95

Product # RM00005 - CD Version: $7.95

BUY Minerals Kit

Deluxe Minerals Kit:

Take a moment to carefully observe the minerals in the photograph to the left. Many of these are comparable in quality to those on display in natural history museums and professional collections. Except for their bases where they were once attached to their natural formations, these minerals display unbroken, crystalline surfaces. Have you ever observed such attractive specimens in standard, run-of-the-mill kits? Quite likely not!

High quality specimens are beautiful to behold and cherished and admired by owners and spectators alike. The crystalline shapes of high quality minerals, unlike those generally included in standard kits, readily betray their identities!

In evaluating the quality and number of specimens included in this kit, check out the comments submitted by previous purchasers appearing to the upper right. Your students spend hours in preparation for their exams and competitions. Do they not deserve the very best speci-mens possible to assist them in meeting their goals? With the exception of two or possibly three specimens, due to availability issues, these high-end kits feature nearly all mineral specimens included on the Official NSO Minerals List.

Product # RM00008
$199.95

To download a list of minerals included in the Deluxe Minerals kit, click on the link below:

deluxe_mineral_kit.docx
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coaches_guide_to_rocks_and_minerals.docx
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c-div_r_m_exam.pdf
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rm_northern_cso.pdf
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Testimonials:

“Thanks for those Rocks and Minerals exams. They saved us! All our coaches are life science teachers, so these exams gave us a concrete place to start.”
- Mark T. Jones, PhD, NCT * ACS B and C Science Olympiad * Drake Middle School

“I graduated with a degree in zoology and, like many science teachers who majored in other areas, possess little knowledge of rocks and minerals. Unable to identify an assistant coach for this event, I panicked. I chose to purchase rocks kits from Other Worlds and was relieved to find that they included introductory activities, plus numerous lab stations. My students first completed the lab stations independently. They then worked in small groups on those stations they found difficult. I used the lab stations for run-offs to divide the students into eight teams. There were 18 teams in our regional competition this year. We placed 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in the Rocks and Minerals event. Our team’s competition results confirmed the value of the rock kits.”
- Mark T. Jones, PhD, NCT, ACS B and C Science Olympiad\Drake Middle School

“We just had our regional tournament yesterday, and our school placed 1st, 2nd and 4th in Rocks and Minerals!!! An amazing result and no doubt much credit goes to the fantastic samples you sent. It made identification sooooooo much easier for the kids compared to the sample boxes available that provide such small, inferior examples that it is hard to determine exactly what the rock or mineral represents. Although the initial investment was a little daunting, it was obvious when they arrived that you had clearly put a lot of thought into your choices and gone the extra mile to select samples that were true to type and large enough to easily work with. The look on those kids’ faces when they won was, in a word, priceless!!”
- Sue McGovern-Huffman, 2012 Rocks and Minerals Coach, Kilmer Middle School, Vienna VA

Shelly and I would like to thank you for the AWESOME collection of minerals that you sent us. The quality is so incredible that you have Shelly speechless ... no small feat!!! In fact Shelly is now looking for a display case so the specimens may be kept out in the open for all of our students to come and look at during their free time. Thanks, again!
- Marianne, Secretary; Shelly, Science Olympiad Coach; Grandville Middle School

You are invited to download a free Coaches Guide to Rocks and Minerals by clicking on the "Download File" to the bottom left. This document introduces a very effective approach for guiding S.O. participants in constructing an organized, thorough and rapid, information-locating student notebook.
Comments are welcome and may be submitted to [email protected] .

Thanks for the free resources! I down-loaded and gave the R & M Guide to my kiddos before the Regional competition and they said it was very helpful. They ended up doing fairly well in the R & M event. I believe their success was in part due to the great resource.
Kellina, MS Science Education

INDIVIDUAL MINERAL SPECIMENS
RATING SCALE: (6 = Outstanding - Similar in quality as the images displayed) * (5 = Excellent) * (4 = Very Good) * (3 = Good) * (2 = Fair) * (1 = Field Quality)
Please note: Descriptions and quality ratings are intended to provide a comparison between fair to high quality specimens.

You will most likely note that the cost of our minerals exceed those included in kits featuring large numbers of specimens. Why? Unlike specimens included in a majority of instructional kits, those from Other Worlds are of a much higher quality, generally larger in size, often in crystallized form, hand-selected and include several characteristics generally associated with each mineral. The testimonials located near the top right hand corner of this page and those on this site's homepage honestly reflect the excitement our minerals generate. The beauty of our specimens excite students and encourage them to delve deeper into their studies and observations of them.

RM000012

Barite
Crystals

White crystals densely coating 50 - 100% of its---the specimen's surface. Stunningly beautiful!

$19.95

RM000014

Barite
Crystals

Thinly stacked, leaf-like, light green crystals on white matrix. Beautiful!

$19.95

RM000015

Chalcedony

Light-blue in color. Sparkling surface! Curved depressions on its surface.

$11.95

RM000018

Pyrite Sun
Crystal

A unique crystalline mineral! Unfortunately, no more of these will be mined in the future as the sole coal mine from which these were mined has been permanently closed!

$12.95

RM000019

Garnet
Crystals

Beautiful, unbroken layer of dark, sparkling garnet crystals on a thick matrix. Incredible specimen. Very limited number available.

$19.95

RM000020

Epidote

Beautiful layer of green crystals on a matrix intermingled with miniature, clear quartz crystals.

$14.95

RM000021

Tourmaline
Pink

Lengthy pink bands scattered randomly on a white matrix. The color pink is a result of prolonged natural irradiation.

$8.95

RM000023

Malachite

Near flawless, beautiful dark green specimen.

$12.95

RM000024

Selenite
Optical

Thinly cut section, ~ 1" in width. Displays optical properties similar to ulexite.

$5.13

RM000025

Lepidolite

Large specimen with distinctive coloration.

$3.54

RM000026

Fluorite

Numerous beautiful blue crystals in this partial geode.

$9.95

RM000027

Bauxite

Large gray-colored specimen with small patterned brown nodules distributed on its surface.

$6.87

RM000028

Hematite Botryoidal

Shiny dark surface with numerous characteristic humps on its surface.

$5.82

RM000029

Epidote

Dark green, sparkly, and rough surface texture.

$3.95

RM000030

Chalcedony
Blue

Light blue color. the mineral comes in a variety of shapes.

$4.95

RM000031

Magnetite

Contrary to common belief, not all magnetite specimens possess strong magnetic properties. This is one such sample chosen to provide evidence for its lack of magnetic properties.

$1.00