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The paper explores the literature to identify the most important factors to consider in teaching students about rocks and minerals. The paper discusses the different types of minerals that exist and explains current teaching approaches. The paper considers the challenges involved in teaching students about these topics and then discusses how to promote the mastery of the material in the high school classroom.

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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Conclusion

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"For some adults and children alike, rocks and minerals form the basis of fascinating hobbies and elaborate collections that last a lifetime. For many others, though, rocks and minerals are so common as to become uninteresting and dull, attracting little attention from these individuals as a result. Nevertheless, rocks and minerals form the basis for human civilization and there is scarcely an industry today that does not depend in some fashion on rocks and minerals to maintain the fundamentals of society. The challenge for science teachers, then, is to make rocks and minerals as fascinating to the uninformed as they are to those "in the know," and while there are a number of useful approaches available for this purpose, some have been shown to work better than others depending on a wide range of factors that must be taken into account when formulating rocks and minerals lesson plans, including the level of student knowledge about the subject matter, the availability and types of resources that can be used to promote learning and what pedagogical approaches are most appropriate and these issues are discussed further below."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Childress, Vincent W., "Resources in Technology: Electrokinetic Remediation The Impact of Industrial Pollution Will Continue to Be a Fundamental Concept of Technology," The Technology Teacher 6 (2001, 4): 15-16.
• Dickerson, Daniel, Matthew Clark, Karen Dawkins, and Cathy Horne, "Using Science Kits to Construct Content Understandings," Journal of Elementary Science Education 18 (2006, 1): 43-44.
• Fertig, Gary, "Connecting with Our Pioneer Past: Letters from the Homestead," Social Education 69 (2005, 5): 263.
• Garrett, Michael Tlanusta, Monica L. Bellon-Harn, Edil Torres-Rivera, J.T. Garrett and Lisen C. Roberts, "Open Hands, Open Hearts: Working with Native Youth in the Schools," Intervention in School & Clinic 38 (2003, 4): 225
• "Getting Started," Social Education 65 (2001, 3): 179.

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