Mineral
and Fossil
Sets
Available As School Sets and As Show Sets
also
Free Shark's Tooth Material*
by Neal
“Educational
Elf” Immega
One
of the crown jewels of the club is our program for making earth science
teaching
sets for schools. Who better to create “jewels” than a gem and mineral
society?
The idea is that when one of the HGMS members gives a talk at a school,
the
member can use a collection of rocks, minerals, or fossils and LEAVE it
behind!
If an HGMS member gives such a talk on one or two sets at a school, the
set
or sets on which the member talks will be left behind with the
teacher.
HGMS
is the grateful recipient of a grant to assist in the creation of these
sets.
ConocoPhillips provides $2,500 each year toward buying boxes and
hard-to-find
items for the sets. Club members provide the expertise, labor, and
about ¾ of
the specimens.
Each
set includes a listing of the minerals or fossils included in the set
and a
feedback questionnaire to be completed by the teacher. The completed
questionnaire should be mailed to HGMS, and we in turn will forward it
to
ConocoPhillips so they can see that their donation is going to good
use.
The sets
that can be taken to a school are
listed in the left hand column below. The right hand column is a list
of those
sets made up specifically for teachers who come to the show on Kids'
Day
(Friday, November 12) for the School Daze Earth Science Program.
Click
on the various components of a set to see those items. (Acrobat
Reader is
necessary for opening PDF files.)
for
details of the
School Daze Earth Science program!
for
information about our show November 12, 13, and 14, 2010.
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School Sets |
Show Sets |
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Quartz Mineral Set Rock Cycle Set Fossil Mini-Set Economic Mineral and Rock Set |
* Free Shark's Tooth Material:
Free
shark tooth concentrate is available from the PCS Phosphate plant in
North
Carolina. Send your request on your school letterhead and give a school
address
suitable for UPS.
The contact person for the shark tooth concentrate is Curtis Ormond, Public Affairs, PCS Phosphate. His telephone number is 252-322-8296, and his e-mail address is cormond@pcsphosphate.com. You can also contact him by mail at
Curtis Ormond, PCS Phosphate, P.O. Box 48, 1530 NC Hwy. 36 South,
Aurora, NC
27806.