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Geology Field Trip

This will be the Geology Field Trip reminder 🙂 The info is posted below. Marie did ask the center to leave out the evolution based info (billions of years, etc.). Marie has people signed up – if you didn’t respond before and are interested, please email Marie directly at mnmtabar@comcast.net – or if you cannot come anymore, please let her know. Please bring cash ($1 per child and $3.50 for each mineral card you’d like to buy – optional – and it helps if you have exact change – thanks)

Marie mnmtabar@comcast.net

Geology – Friday, May 30, 2008 10:00am – 12:00pm
Fees: $1/person (ages 3 years and older) + $3.50/rock and mineral card (Note: Tim mis-quoted the price of these cards…they are $3.50 each – and are available to anyone who would like to purchase them…it’s totally optional).

Younger students (pre-school through 2nd grade)
*Uses of rocks and minerals
*3 categories of rocks and how they form
*volcano demo
*magma hardening into rock
*Rock & Mineral ID
*How rocks and minerals break down to help form soil
*Nature Hike – reinforce as many of the above as possible

Older students (3rd grade and up)
*All of the above….plus….
*Discuss methods used to ID rocks (streak test, hardness scale etc.)
*Differences between elements, minerals and rocks
*”Fossils” – MI state symbols (Petosky Stone, Isle Royals Greenstone, Mastadon)

Please let me know if you have any quesions.

Yours in nature,
Lynn Conover
Assistant Naturalist
Lewis Wint Nature Center
9501 Sashabaw Road, Clarkston MI 48348
248-625-6473

Visit us on the web at: www.oakgov.com/parksrec

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