Look up close at rocks, minerals and sparkling gems to unravel the clues to classify and identify them. Find out how they were formed, where in the world they're found and how to start your own rock collection.DK Adventures is a nonfiction series for kids ages 8-11 featuring visually rich theme spreads, and fascinating facts that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. Designed to keep interest high, build knowledge, and enrich the reading experience with fascinating background information, each title in the DK Adventures series is filled with information yet eminently accessible, and available in a wide range of kid-favorite topics including rain forests, animals, rocks, and shipwrecks.

Product Description: The polished gems set in necklaces, rings, and earrings are often beautiful and valuabletheyre also minerals. Readers are introduced to how minerals form through accessible science content and fun fact boxes that cover this standard science curriculum area in an engaging way...read more

Product Description: The rock cycle is a never ending process of rock formation and the breaking down of rocks. Chapters explain the classification of rocks and their place in the rock cycle as well as how rocks form and break down through erosion and weathering...read more

Product Description: Explore Rocks and Minerals! offers kids ages 6–9 a fascinating introduction to geology. It investigates the geological forces that create and transform rocks, outlining the life cycle of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, and what they can tell us about the earth...read more

Product Description: Explorers are encouraged to dig in and get dirty while learning about Earths many rocks and minerals. Abundant iron and the rare diamond are only the surface of whats discovered. Readers unearth what Earth is made of and learn how we use those ingredients in our everyday lives...read more

A children's series endorsed by the Smithsonian Institution answers questions kids ask about subjects that are of interest to them, while each title also provides links to Smithsonian websites, interviews with a Smithsonian Specialist, great photos, and accessible text.

A children's series endorsed by the Smithsonian Institution answers questions kids ask about subjects that are of interest to them, while each title also provides links to Smithsonian websites, interviews with a Smithsonian Specialist, great photos, and accessible text.

Product Description: Learn about the incredible world beneath your feet - igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, precious metals and beautiful crystals. Fascinating facts are accompanied by practical step-by-step projects that show you how to test rocks for hardness, simple soil analysis, make your own fossils, look at erosion, create crystals, and much more...read more

Product Description: Get ready to get your hands dirty with Gems. With its reader-friendly and interactive approach, this title covers key curriculum Earth science topics in an engaging way. This title explores the natural processes, how geologists study gems, and how gems relate to the reader's daily life...read more

Product Description: From Stone Age hunters who carved spearheads from rock, to modern-day construction workers building skyscrapers and sidewalks, people have been using rock for millions of years. Today, we build with rock, we use it to make statues, we extract metals and precious gemstones from rock, and we even use it to make pencils! Filled with information perfectly suited to the abilities and interests of an early elementary audience, this colorful, fact-filled volume gives readers a chance not only to learn, but also to develop their powers of observation and critical thinking...read more

Mountains are made of it. Buildings can be too. Read more to find out the facts on rocks.

Product Description: "Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to minerals. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

Product Description: This volume explores the role of minerals in rock formation. Chapters focus on mineral properties, classification, elements, and crystal formation. Young readers will gain an understanding of how the rock cycle works and how minerals are the building blocks of Earths rocks through level-appropriate text and graphic organizers...read more

Product Description: Take a quest on the journey of rock! Explore how they form, change, move, evolve and erode.

This book provides a simple and fun introduction to minerals, discussing different minerals, exploring how and why they have formed, how they have changed over time, their appearance and properties. With the help of some Rock Solid! facts that provide cool examples, the book will show you how amazing minerals can be: from ruby crystals and stalagmites and stalactites in caves to talcum powder.

Minerals is a title in the Focus on Earth Science series. This series guides readers through the fundamentals of geology. Each title explores the composition of rocks and minerals, geological processes, and the significance of geology in our modern lives. Stunning photographs and intriguing facts are sure to inspire a thirst for knowledge.