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Gems for Kids: A Junior Scientist's Guide to Mineral Crystals and Other Natural Treasures
Unearth our planet’s glittering treasures—a fascinating book of gems for kids 6 to 9
What do dusty old rocks have to do with the shiny, colorful jewels that you see in rings and necklaces? Everything! Set off on a journey inside Earth and learn the different ways our planet uses rocks and minerals to make gemstones. Discover how some grow in red-hot magma deep underground, while others are made by animals or plants, plus fun facts about their colors, shapes, uses, and more. You’ll even learn how to grow your own crystals with sugar and water!
Gems for Kids
25 Different stones—Dig in to some of the world’s most rare, popular, and colorful gems, from amethyst and opal to pearl and ruby. The parts of a gem—Learn how gems are classified by things like color, shape, streak, luster, and parent minerals, and what these properties mean about where the gem came from. Earth science basics—Explore the scientific principles behind how rocks form, how gems form inside them, and what makes them so valuable and beautiful.
Rock hounds, get ready! It’s time to explore the incredible world of gems.
What do dusty old rocks have to do with the shiny, colorful jewels that you see in rings and necklaces? Everything! Set off on a journey inside Earth and learn the different ways our planet uses rocks and minerals to make gemstones. Discover how some grow in red-hot magma deep underground, while others are made by animals or plants, plus fun facts about their colors, shapes, uses, and more. You’ll even learn how to grow your own crystals with sugar and water!
Gems for Kids
25 Different stones—Dig in to some of the world’s most rare, popular, and colorful gems, from amethyst and opal to pearl and ruby. The parts of a gem—Learn how gems are classified by things like color, shape, streak, luster, and parent minerals, and what these properties mean about where the gem came from. Earth science basics—Explore the scientific principles behind how rocks form, how gems form inside them, and what makes them so valuable and beautiful.
Rock hounds, get ready! It’s time to explore the incredible world of gems.
70 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 29, 2020
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Lee Hall
57 books5 followersLee Hall was the co-author of Dining with Friends: The Art of North American Vegan Cuisine as well as various articles, books, and encyclopedia entries on food security, climate and migration, environmental law, the feminist movement and animal rights. Lee's most recent book was On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down to Earth. Lee was a a member of the Adjunct Faculty of Law at Rutgers University, Newark. She taught immigration law and animal law, and worked full-time as the legal affairs VP for the international advocacy non-profit Friends of Animals.
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December 16, 2022
This review was posted for the purchase of a boxed set of: Gems For Kids, Geology For Kids, and Fossils For Kids, all from the Junior Scientist series from Rockridge Press. (My Amazon review includes photographs from the books.)
The three books in this set cover distinct categories in earth science and are laid out in a format that includes large font, frequent photographs, non-fiction reading tools such as maps, charts, graphs, glossary, index, further resources, and table of contents. The Geology for Kids book cover far more than one would expect with the very broad “Earth beneath your feet” descriptor and includes landforms and extreme weather that affects those landforms. Each chapter in this book includes an experiment that demonstrates a facet of what was just learned. Most can be done with items found readily at home and require varying amounts of adult help from none to a great deal. The later chapters guide young rock hounds in collecting, studying and classifying their own rocks. The Gems book includes charts and maps and pictures of gems that is fun to browse through. Fossils is similar in layout to the Geology book but doesn’t have quite as many hands on activities. The dinosaur section will appeal to even those preschool-aged children who can already correctly identify their dinosaur toys.
Aspects of all three of these books can be used by caregivers with their preschool children who love non-fiction or as a way to interest them in something more than Paw Patrol! The photographs and activities have broad age appeal. Students who are in grades 3-6 will be able to use these books independently and I recommend that science classrooms and libraries serving these ages get these and other “Junior Scientist” books available.
The three books in this set cover distinct categories in earth science and are laid out in a format that includes large font, frequent photographs, non-fiction reading tools such as maps, charts, graphs, glossary, index, further resources, and table of contents. The Geology for Kids book cover far more than one would expect with the very broad “Earth beneath your feet” descriptor and includes landforms and extreme weather that affects those landforms. Each chapter in this book includes an experiment that demonstrates a facet of what was just learned. Most can be done with items found readily at home and require varying amounts of adult help from none to a great deal. The later chapters guide young rock hounds in collecting, studying and classifying their own rocks. The Gems book includes charts and maps and pictures of gems that is fun to browse through. Fossils is similar in layout to the Geology book but doesn’t have quite as many hands on activities. The dinosaur section will appeal to even those preschool-aged children who can already correctly identify their dinosaur toys.
Aspects of all three of these books can be used by caregivers with their preschool children who love non-fiction or as a way to interest them in something more than Paw Patrol! The photographs and activities have broad age appeal. Students who are in grades 3-6 will be able to use these books independently and I recommend that science classrooms and libraries serving these ages get these and other “Junior Scientist” books available.
July 1, 2021
Alexandria is my favorite gemstone because it changes color. And the daylight Alexandre is green or blue. This is called metamorphism.
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