Teaching Guides
Woo-hoo, the teaching guides have arrived! Click below for previews and downloadable PDFs, and be sure to bookmark this page and check back soon for more*.
*We’re especially excited, for example, about our Mineral Trading Cards, arriving sometime in spring 2026. We plan to offer them in physical form (as a deck) and downloadable, both. The cards are exactly what we would have adored having as nerdy rock-loving kids, and we can’t wait to be able to offer them to all the nerdy rock-loving kids of today!
The Rock Readers Teaching Guides for Grades 4-5
It’s Elemental: Mineral Code Breaker
(Students learn chemical formulas, chemical symbols, and the Periodic Table.)
Geo Guardians! A Superhero Mineral Activity
(Students learn chemical formulas and mineral properties, use maps, and practice their reading, writing, and analysis skills in a creative and artistic way.)
Rock Science and Rockhounding Quizzes
(These quizzes for 4th and 5th graders are intended to pair with the information found on the Rock Science and Rockhounding pages of this website.)
Mineral Group Quizzes
(These quizzes for 4th and 5th graders are intended to pair with the information found on the Rock Groups page of this website.)
The Rock Readers Teaching Guides for Grades 6-8
It’s Elemental: Mineral Code Breaker
(Students identify, count, and decode atoms and interpret chemical formulas and elements.)
Geo Guardians! A Superhero Mineral Activity
(Students identify minerals and learn about mineral properties while gathering, reading, researching, analyzing, and interpreting scientific information in a creative manner.)
Rock Science and Rockhounding Quizzes
(These quizzes for 6th to 8th graders are intended to pair with the information found on the Rock Science and Rockhounding pages of this website.)
Mineral Group Quizzes
(These quizzes for 6th to 8th graders are intended to pair with the information found on the Rock Groups page of this website.)