[Rockhounds] Junior Geology

[Lapidry at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/3/2007 7:53:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
libawc at emory.edu writes:

Hi  Folks:
I'm staffing a booth at an upcoming festival here in  Atlanta. The
organizer wanted me to do something on "Jr. Geology". I've  thought about
getting a baby swimming pool, filling it with sand and hiding  some
"treasures" from the rock world. 
I've also got a  thing called "The Name Game" where you match up rocks
with their names.  
Does anyone have any other ideas? This is for the 1-12 year  old crowd, so
I need something quick and dirty. Nothing complicated, but  something they
can learn from and enjoy. (I don't ask for much do  I?)
Thanks for any ideas you can share,
Anita  




Anita:
 
One of the local educational fossil places around here, Penn-Dixie, is  given 
free space at several of the shows to advertise their place. It's an old  
quarry now operated for fossils. They have plastic storage bins full of shredded  
paper that they hide fossils in and allow the kids to dig around and take one 
 fossil each. Then they find a slip describing the particular fossil and 
place  both in a zip lock bag for the kids, along with coloring pages and other  
information about them. It always proves to be a popular kids activity. They  
also have poster boards with information. This is similar to what you are  
describing but might be a less heavy version. You could substitute about  anything 
small, tumbled stones, small mineral specimens, etc.
 
Dan



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