{"id":5524,"date":"2013-07-29T21:23:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T01:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2021-08-14T22:57:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T02:57:36","slug":"geology-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Geology ROCKS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rocks! See below for books, projects, experiments, arts and crafts, and much more.Celebrate National Fossil Day, make eggshell geodes, take a nature walk with alphabet rocks, grow gorgeous crystals, play the ancient Asian game of Five Stones and build your own catapult.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsciweek.org\/\">Earth Science Week<\/a>, which is celebrated each year in October. Check out the website (see below) for ideas, activities, research projects, a photo gallery, and a state-by-state list of Earth Science organizations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e99fafdfa2a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/3\/#Planet_Earth_or_Third_Rock_From_the_Sun\" >Planet Earth, or Third Rock From the Sun<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/4\/#Special_Rocks\" >Special Rocks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/4\/#Rock_Collecting\" >Rock Collecting<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/4\/#Geological_Time_or_the_Long_Long_Long_History_of_Rocks\" >Geological Time, or the Long, Long, Long History of Rocks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/5\/#Fossils\" >Fossils<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/5\/#Jewels_and_Gems\" >Jewels and Gems<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/6\/#Rocks_and_Math\" >Rocks and Math<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/6\/#Geology_and_Poetry\" >Geology and Poetry<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/6\/#Famous_Rocks\" >Famous Rocks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/7\/#Rock_Art_Ancient_and_New\" >Rock Art, Ancient and New<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/8\/#Rocks_as_Weapons\" >Rocks as Weapons<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/geology-rocks\/8\/#_Fictional_Rocks_and_Magic_Rocks\" >\u00a0Fictional Rocks and Magic Rocks<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_Rocks_and_Minerals\"><\/span><b>About Rocks and Minerals<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-rock-is-lively-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-rock-is-lively-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-rock-is-lively-768x936.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-rock-is-lively.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Dianna Hutts Aston, <i>A Rock is Lively<\/i> (Chronicle Books, 2012) is a beautifully designed and illustrated introduction to the world of rocks, feature by feature, in the same format as Aston\u2019s previous nature picture books, among them <i>An Egg is Quiet<\/i> and <i>A Seed is Sleepy<\/i>. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-and-mins-Tomacek-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-and-mins-Tomacek-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-and-mins-Tomacek-1024x842.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-and-mins-Tomacek-768x632.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-and-mins-Tomacek.jpg 1094w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Steve Tomacek\u2019s <em>R<\/em><i>ocks and Minerals<\/i> (National Geographic Children\u2019s Books, 2010) in the Jump Into Science series is a colorful introduction to rocks covering the formation of the planet, the building blocks of rocks, and uses of rocks. Included is a project for making a rock of your own (using sand, pebbles, and white glue). For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>In the same series, see Tomacek\u2019s <i>Dirt <\/i>(2007), which includes a soil stratification project, and Ellen Prager\u2019s <i>Sand<\/i> (2006).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-Rosinsky-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-Rosinsky-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-Rosinsky.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Natalie M. Rosinsky\u2019s <i>Rocks: Hard, Soft, Smooth, and Rough<\/i> (Picture Window Books, 2002) is a simple introduction to igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Included are a rock identification chart and an explanation of the Mohs Hardness Scale. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amfed.org\/t_mohs.htm\">The Mohs Hardness Scale<\/a> was invented in 1812 by German mineralogist Frederich Mohs. This website explains the scale (in ten easy steps, from talc to diamond) and shows how a number of common items (fingernails, a penny) fall into place.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magic-school-bus-inside-earth-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magic-school-bus-inside-earth-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magic-school-bus-inside-earth.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Joanna Cole\u2019s <i>The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth<\/i> (Scholastic, 1989), the incomparable Ms. Frizzle \u2013 in hard hat and rock-patterned jumpsuit \u2013 takes her class on a journey to the center of the earth. (They return to the surface via volcanic eruption.) Information about rock layers and rocks is delivered through cartoon bubbles and hand-lettered student reports. For ages 6-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/extreme-rocks-and-mins-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/extreme-rocks-and-mins-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/extreme-rocks-and-mins.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Melissa Stewart\u2019s <i>Extreme Rocks and Minerals<\/i> (HarperCollins, 2007) combines gorgeous color photos with a reader-friendly question-and-answer format. Sample questions: \u201cWhat is a mineral?\u201d \u201cWhat is a rock?\u201d \u201cHow do you identify sedimentary rocks?\u201d \u201cHow are rocks recycled?\u201d Included are links to relevant Smithsonian websites. For ages 6-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-factory-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-factory-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-factory-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-factory.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jacqui Bailey\u2019s <i>The Rock Factory<\/i> (Picture Window Books, 2007) tells the story of the rock cycle through the adventures of one rock, born in the depths of a volcano. For ages 7-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/basher-rocks-and-mins-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/basher-rocks-and-mins-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/basher-rocks-and-mins-1010x1024.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/basher-rocks-and-mins-768x779.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/basher-rocks-and-mins-1514x1536.jpg 1514w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/basher-rocks-and-mins-2019x2048.jpg 2019w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/basher-rocks-and-mins.jpg 2023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Simon Basher and Dan Green, <i>Rocks and Minerals<\/i> (Kingfisher, 2009) covers the three rock types, ores, minerals, gems, and fossils in a fact-filled breezy text, giving each feature a first-person voice. Clay, for example, states, \u201cI\u2019m the type of mushy goo that can suck rain boots off your feet. My main ingredients are tiny particles that you can\u2019t see unless you use an electron microscope.\u201d Shale announces, \u201cMy experiences in becoming a rock have been brutal.\u201d Illustrated with great little cartoon icons. One of an extensive science series, all good. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/everything-rocks-and-mins-NG-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/everything-rocks-and-mins-NG-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/everything-rocks-and-mins-NG.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Steve Tomacek\u2019s reader-friendly <i>National Geographic Kids: Everything Rocks and Minerals<\/i> variously covers different types of rocks, uses of rocks (arrowheads, coal, the Taj Mahal), the rock cycle, gemstones, and rock collecting. Illustrated with gorgeous color photographs. An appealing read for ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/story-of-salt-1-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/story-of-salt-1-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/story-of-salt-1-1024x861.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/story-of-salt-1-768x646.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/story-of-salt-1-1536x1291.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/story-of-salt-1-2048x1722.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Mark Kurlansky\u2019s\u00a0<i>The Story of Salt<\/i>\u00a0(Putnam Juvenile Books, 2006) is a picture-book history covering all aspects of salt. Fascinating for ages 8-12. (For teenagers and adults, see Kurlansky\u2019s much longer\u00a0<i>Salt: A World History<\/i>\u00a0(Penguin Books, 2003).)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Salt is the only mineral we eat. Learn more about sea salt, salt beds, salt domes, and more at <a href=\"http:\/\/geology.about.com\/od\/salt\/a\/aboutsalt.htm\">About Salt<\/a>. Included is a link to a site with instructions for making your own salt crystals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eyewitness-rocks-and-minerals-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eyewitness-rocks-and-minerals-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eyewitness-rocks-and-minerals.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In the Eyewitness series, <i>Rocks &amp; Minerals<\/i> (Dorling Kindersley, 2008) by R.F. Symes covers rock formation, weathering and erosion, the three basic kinds of rocks, fossils, gemstones, minerals, and precious metals, with separate sections devoted to limestone caves, rocks as tools, coal, rocks from space, and rock collecting. Each topic has a double-page spread, illustrated with spectacular photos and diagrams. The bulk of the text is in picture captions. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/discover-nature-in-rocks-Lawton-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/discover-nature-in-rocks-Lawton-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/discover-nature-in-rocks-Lawton.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Rebecca Lawton, Diana Lawton, and Susan Panttaja, <i>Discover Nature in the Rocks<\/i> (Stackpole Books, 1997) is a family-friendly 200+-page survey of general geology, covering minerals, rocks, volcanoes, sediment, fossils, erosion, water, continents and tectonic plates, earthquakes, and rocks in space. Each chapter includes several activities (model sedimentary layers in a glass jar, bake a batch of volcano tarts, make a Pangaea puzzle), an interesting selection of further \u201cThings to Think About,\u201d and helpful book and video lists.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Donald R. Prothero\u2019s <em>The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks<\/em> (Columbia University Press, 2018), chapters include \u201cVolcanic Tuff: Vulcan\u2019s Wrath: The Eruption of Vesuvius,\u201d \u201cCoal: The Rock That Burns Fires the Industrial Revolution;\u201d and \u201cMoon Rocks: Green Cheese or Anorthosite? The Origin of the Moon.\u201d An absorbing read for teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/annals-of-former-world-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/annals-of-former-world-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/annals-of-former-world.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By famed nonfiction writer John McPhee, <i>Annals of the Former World<\/i> (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 2000) is a fascinating geologic overview of the United States, based on a series of cross-country trips McPhee took in company with various geologists. Portions of the trip were published as separate earlier books (<i>Basin and Range<\/i>, <i>In Suspect Terrain<\/i>, <i>Rising From the Plains<\/i>, <i>Assembling California<\/i>); <i>Annals of the Former World<\/i> includes them all, plus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Highly recommended for interested teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/roadside-geology-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/roadside-geology-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/roadside-geology.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/geology.com\/store\/roadside-geology.shtml\">Roadside Geology<\/a> series (Mountain Press) has a volume for each state, detailing geological history and key features. Fun to keep in the car.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onegeology.org\/extra\/kids\/\">OneGeology<\/a>, kids click on a cute little character to learn about geology, maps, rocks and minerals, fossils and dinosaurs, earthquakes, volcanoes, worldwide geology, energy, water, and earth processes. Each character\u2019s page has kid-friendly information, interactive diagrams, video clips, photos, and a short quiz.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockhoundkids.com\/\">Rock Hound Kids<\/a> (\u201cHelping Kids to Love Geology\u201d) has a mineral photo gallery, interactive graphics on geology basics, an online rock game (\u201cWho Am I?\u201d), and resource lists for parents and teachers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>The Smithsonian\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/mineralsciences.si.edu\/\">Department of Mineral Sciences<\/a> has a wealth of resources, among them the incredible Dynamic Earth map (track earthquakes, volcanoes, impact craters, and plate boundaries) and the Global Volcanism Program (\u201c10,000 years of volcanic activity at your fingertips\u201d). Visitors can also check out (wonderful) ongoing exhibits, and learn about the Hope Diamond and the search for Antarctic meteorites.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Got a question about rocks, minerals, volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains, maps, rivers, or any other geological topic? Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/walrus.wr.usgs.gov\/ask-a-geologist\/\">Ask-a-Geologist<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>Hands-On Rocks<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/under-one-rock-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/under-one-rock-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/under-one-rock.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Anthony D. Fredericks, <i>Under One Rock<\/i> (Dawn Publications, 2001) is a rhyming picture-book account of the ecosystems (\u201cBugs, Slugs, and Other Ughs\u201d) to be found under rocks. An appendix of Field Notes provides more information on the creatures most likely to be found. Pair this one with an outdoor rock-turning expedition. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/geology-rocks-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/geology-rocks-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/geology-rocks.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Cindy Blobaum\u2019s <i>Geology Rocks!<\/i> (Williamson Publishing, 1999), subtitled \u201c50 Hands-On Activities to Explore the Earth,\u201d is a witty and informational collection covering everything from rock types to earthquakes and the structure of the planet. For example, try mining with a chocolate chip cookie, make a sand sculpture, play a rock version of Tic-Tac-Toe. Illustrated with a mix of cartoon drawings and photographs. For ages 7-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Geology-Lab-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Geology-Lab-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Geology-Lab.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<p><b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Garret Romaine\u2019s <em>Geology Lab for Kids<\/em> (Quarry Books, 2017) has 52 experiments and projects for exploring crystals, volcanoes, rock types, earthquakes, geysers, fossils, space rocks, and more. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ExploreRocksAndMinerals_Cover-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ExploreRocksAndMinerals_Cover-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ExploreRocksAndMinerals_Cover.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Cynthia Light Brown, <i>Explore Rocks and Minerals<\/i> (Nomad Press, 2010) is a collection of 25 projects, activities, and experiments for rock lovers. Various chapters cover the structure of the earth, minerals and crystals, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, fossils, and rock collecting. Included are fact boxes and \u201cWords 2 Know\u201d lists. For example, kids make pumice (meringue) cookies, grow crystals and stalactites, make fossils, and more. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Stories_in_Stone-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Stories_in_Stone-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Stories_in_Stone.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>From the Lawrence Hall of Science <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lhsgems.org\/\">GEMS<\/a> (Great Explorations in Math and Science) program, see <em>Stories in Stone<\/em>, a creative 8-lesson, 164-page earth science unit for grades 4-8. (To accompany it, you\u2019ll need a sample rock and mineral collection; sources are listed. Also see below.) Working with samples, kids differentiate between rocks and minerals, classify both, identify &#8220;mystery rocks,&#8221; experiment with crystals, and make clay models to study the rock cycle and plate tectonics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TOPs-rocks-and-mins-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TOPs-rocks-and-mins-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TOPs-rocks-and-mins.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>From TOPScience, <a href=\"https:\/\/topscience.org\/products\/23-rocks-and-minerals-grades-6-12\">Rocks and Minerals<\/a> is an 88-page, activity-based study unit for grades 6-12 (or younger), variously covering types of rocks, Mohs hardness scale, rock identification, the rock cycle, and more. The TOPScience units are impressively clever, with detailed teaching tips, background information, and instructions for building your own sophisticated scientific equipment out of practically nothing. Highly recommended.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/science-support\/osqi\/yes\/resources-teachers\">USGS Educational Resources<\/a> has wonderful lesson plans, activity instructions, and downloadable teacher\u2019s guides and student booklets on a wide range of environmental and earth science topics categorized by grade (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencekids.co.nz\/geology.html\">Geology for Kids<\/a> has interactive games, videos, lists of fun facts, and lesson plans. Kids can experiment online with rocks, minerals, and soils. Make quicksand and a vinegar volcano.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Sponsored by the American Geosciences Institute, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsciweek.org\/forteachers\/classroomactivities.html\">Earth Science Week<\/a> has a long (long) alphabetized list of activities, categorized by grade level and based on the National Science Education Standards. Sample project titles: A Model of Three Faults, Chocolate Rock Cycle, Earthquake Machine, Geologic Age, Mud Fossils, and Rock Around the World.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gand-canyon-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gand-canyon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gand-canyon-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gand-canyon.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>The Grand Canyon National Park <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/grca\/learn\/education\/index.htm\">Education<\/a> page has lesson plans, virtual field trips, and distance learning opportunities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/earthlearningidea.blogspot.com\/\">Earth Learning Idea<\/a> posts a new earth-related teaching idea or project every week.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverwithdrcool.com\/\">Discover with Dr. Cool<\/a> science kits are terrific resources for young rock lovers. Among these: the Mine for Gems and Mine for Fossils kits, which come with digging tool, brush, and ten high-quality specimens embedded in a digging block; the Learn How to Pan for Gold kit, which has a prospector\u2019s pan, mining tools, and two bags of \u201cpay dirt\u201d which contain \u2013 in lieu of actual gold \u2013 pyrite nuggets; and the Glow Rocks kit, which has a portable UV lamp, six fluorescent rock specimens, and an adventure guide. Very cool.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/microslide-viewer-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/microslide-viewer-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/microslide-viewer.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolina.com\/microscope-slide-classroom-resources\/microslide-viewer\/FAM_489700.pr\">Microslide Viewer <\/a>is a truly terrific little apparatus \u2013 it looks a bit like a microscope (though is cheap, lightweight, washable, and pretty much indestructible) and can be used to view strips of photomicrographs (microslides), collections of eight or more photographs taken through microscopes at various degrees of magnification. There are dozens of microslide sets, among them \u201cRocks and Rock-Forming Minerals,\u201d \u201cFossils,\u201d and \u201cMineral Characteristics and Identification,\u201d each a fascinating series of thin sections. (See granite, really close-up.) Viewers cost about $10; microslide sets about $6. Highly recommended. Available from a number of science suppliers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasticfunandlearning.com\/30-playful-ways-to-teach-young-kids-about-rocks.html\">40 Playful Ways to Teach Young Kids About Rocks <\/a>is a great collection of rock activities for the very young, including a make-your-own-rock activity, a percussion rock band project, a letter R craft (with rocks), and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homesciencetools.com\/earth-science\/geology-kits-supplies\/\">Home Science Tools<\/a> carries a range of materials for geology fans, including rock and mineral collections, an earth cross-section model, soil test lab kits, gold panning gravel, and volcano kits.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minimegeology.com\/\">MiniMe Geology<\/a> is a source for rock cycle, rock, and mineral kits, starter rock collections, individual rock and mineral samples, and geology equipment for rock hounds. Also at the site are a series of fascinating geology articles on a wide range of topics and an illustrated and annotated list of birthstones.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/geology.com\/\">Geology.com<\/a> is a terrific source for information about geology and earth science, along with books, field guides, maps, and geology equipment (everything from rock hammers to gold pans). Click on Teacher Resources for an excellent collection of resources and activities, among them a plate tectonics animation, rock and mineral identification helps, information on buying and using a rock tumbler, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgs.wvnet.edu\/www\/geoeduc\/adaptiveactivities.PDF\">Adaptive Earth Science Activities<\/a>, an 80-page printable booklet of geology and earth science projects, among them \u201cParking Lot Gravel,\u201d \u201cSpelunking,\u201d \u201cRock Riddles,\u201d \u201cMighty Metamorphic Power Rocks,\u201d and \u201cModeling Geologic Columns with Sand Art.\u201d For each are included a materials list, step-by-step instructions, and follow-up questions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rock-tumbler-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rock-tumbler-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rock-tumbler-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rock-tumbler-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rock-tumbler.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Polish rocks! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometrainingtools.com\/rock-tumblers\/c\/199\/\">Home Science Tools<\/a> and other science supply sources carry rock tumblers, grit, and ready-to-polish rocks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/break-geodes-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/break-geodes-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/break-geodes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/break-geodes.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Break your own geodes! (Put them in a sock and smack them with a hammer to reveal an inner cavity filled with crystals.) Available from several sources; a box of twelve is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Break-Your-Geodes-Quality-Whole\/dp\/B003TUC6RS\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orientaltrading.com\/ui\/browse\/processRequest.do?requestURI=processProductsCatalog&amp;categoryId=377320&amp;sku=9\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>For the dramatic geologist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badwolfpress.com\/geology-rocks-musical-play\">Geology ROCKS!<\/a> (Bad Wolf Press) is a 25-minute musical for elementary-level kids. The plot: Professor Rock has disappeared and his students head out on a quest to find him, with the dubious help of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. En route they encounter volcanoes and other geological features, and learn about the rock cycle. Script, teacher\u2019s guide, and musical CD cost $39.95.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maranatha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/KFC-December-2018-Game.pdf\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/five-stones-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/five-stones-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/five-stones-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/five-stones-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/five-stones.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/maranatha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/KFC-December-2018-Game.pdf\">Five Stones<\/a> is a game believed to have originated in ancient Asia. It\u2019s like jacks, with a twist. All you need to play is hand-eye coordination and five small stones. Another reason to collect pebbles.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><!--nextpage--><\/h4>\n<h4><b>Planet Earth, or Third Rock From the Sun<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-My-first-4.56-bil-yrs-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-My-first-4.56-bil-yrs-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-My-first-4.56-bil-yrs-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-My-first-4.56-bil-yrs-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-My-first-4.56-bil-yrs-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-My-first-4.56-bil-yrs-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-My-first-4.56-bil-yrs.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Stacy McAnulty, <em>Earth: My First 4.54 Billion Years<\/em> (Henry Holt, 2017) is a picture book history of the Earth, told from the point of view of the planet itself. \u00a0For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13984\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-to-dig-a-hole-to-the-other-side-of-the-world-original-imafy7zdbgamvucz-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-to-dig-a-hole-to-the-other-side-of-the-world-original-imafy7zdbgamvucz-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-to-dig-a-hole-to-the-other-side-of-the-world-original-imafy7zdbgamvucz.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Faith McNulty\u2019s <em>How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1990) begins \u201cFind a soft place. Take a shovel and start to dig a hole.\u201d If you dig your hole in Africa, you might find diamonds; in other places, gold, silver, coal, or dinosaur bones. A fascinating account of a little kid\u2019s 8000-mile -long journey through the earth. Will make everybody want to dig a hole. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antipodesmap.com\/\">Antipodes Map<\/a> to see just where you&#8217;d come out if you managed to dig a hole to the other side of the world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/planet-earth-inside-out-Gibbons-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/planet-earth-inside-out-Gibbons-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/planet-earth-inside-out-Gibbons.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Gail Gibbons\u2019s <i>Planet Earth\/Inside Out<\/i> (HarperCollins, 1997) is a brightly colored picture-book survey of geology, covering the formation and structure of the earth, volcanoes, earthquakes, and the three major types of rocks. A simple straightforward introduction for ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/street-beneath-my-feet-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/street-beneath-my-feet-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/street-beneath-my-feet.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Charlotte Guillain\u2019s The Street Beneath My Feet (words &amp; pictures, 2017) is a fascinating journey underground through tunnels and pipes, animal burrows, and rock layers, down to the earth\u2019s molten core. For ages 5-9.<\/p>\n<p>For young engineers, pair this one with David Macaulay\u2019s <em>Underground<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983), an exquisitely illustrated account of the vast underground systems that support a city.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Volcanoes-Simon-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Volcanoes-Simon-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Volcanoes-Simon-768x753.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Volcanoes-Simon.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Seymour Simon\u2019s <i>Volcanoes<\/i> (HarperCollins, 1996) covers the origin of volcanoes and famous volcanoes worldwide with beautiful color photographs and diagrams. For ages 6-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>In the same format, see Seymour Simon\u2019s <i>Earthquakes<\/i> (HarperCollins, 2006).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grand-canyon-Chin-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grand-canyon-Chin-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grand-canyon-Chin-827x1024.jpg 827w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grand-canyon-Chin-768x951.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grand-canyon-Chin.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jason Chin\u2019s <em>Grand Canyon<\/em> (Roaring Brook, 2017) covers the ecology, geology, and paleontology of the spectacular Grand Canyon, illustrated with great paintings and diagrams. For ages 7-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dirtmeister-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dirtmeister-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dirtmeister-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dirtmeister-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dirtmeister.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Steve Tomecek, <em>Dirtmeister\u2019s Nitty Gritty Planet Earth<\/em> (National Geographic, 2015) is part cartoon-illustrated graphic novel, part scientific explanation. A catchy introduction to rocks, minerals, fossils, and the workings of the earth for ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/earthquakes-volcs-Levy-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/earthquakes-volcs-Levy-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/earthquakes-volcs-Levy.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori, <i>Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis<\/i> (Chicago Review Press, 2009) explains the science behind earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami waves, with helpful black-and-white illustrations, diagrams, and many projects, demonstrations, and experiments. For example, kids simulate the behavior of tectonic plates using a hardboiled egg, build a model seismograph, and demonstrate ground shocks with a Slinky. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-Sci-Bk-by-Zike-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-Sci-Bk-by-Zike-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-Sci-Bk-by-Zike-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-Sci-Bk-by-Zike-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Earth-Sci-Bk-by-Zike.jpg 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Dinah Zikes, <i>The Earth Science Book<\/i> (John Wiley &amp; Sons, 1993) is an informational activity book in seven chapters, variously covering the Earth, Matter, the Lithosphere (rocks), the Hydrosphere, the Atmosphere, Life, and Our Changing Earth. Included are clear explanations, many black-and-white illustrations and diagrams, fact boxes, and \u201cFamous Faces\u201d with brief biographies of important scientists. For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/map-that-changed-world-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/map-that-changed-world-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/map-that-changed-world.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Simon Winchester\u2019s <em>The Map That Changed the World<\/em> (Harper Perennial, 2009) is the story of William Smith \u2013 the canal digger who discovered stratigraphy \u2013 and the birth of modern geology. For teens and adults.<\/p>\n<p>Also by Winchester, see <em>A Crack in the Edge of the World<\/em> (2013), the story of the Great California Earthquake of 1906; and <em>Krakatoa<\/em> (2005), the story of the phenomenal volcanic eruption of 1883.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Story-of-Earth-Hazen-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Story-of-Earth-Hazen-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Story-of-Earth-Hazen-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Story-of-Earth-Hazen-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Story-of-Earth-Hazen-1020x1536.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Story-of-Earth-Hazen-1360x2048.jpg 1360w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Story-of-Earth-Hazen.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Robert M. Hazen\u2019s <em>The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet<\/em> (Penguin, 2013) is a well-written popular history of planet Earth, from the Big Bang on. For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>Special Rocks<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13985 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/if-rocks-could-sing-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/if-rocks-could-sing-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/if-rocks-could-sing-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/if-rocks-could-sing.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Leslie McGuirk\u2019s photo-illustrated <i>If Rocks Could Sing<\/i> (Tricycle Press, 2011) is a \u201cDiscovered Alphabet\u201d in rocks, all found on the beach near the author\u2019s home. B, for example, is for Bird, and features both a rock shaped like the letter B and a bird-shaped rock in a nest. What a great idea for a family rock-hunting project. For ages 3 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/alphabet-rocks-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/alphabet-rocks-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/alphabet-rocks-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/alphabet-rocks.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Take a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissaanddoug.com\/blogpost?postId=nature-walk-with-alphabet-rocks\">Nature Walk with Alphabet Rocks<\/a>. In this fun activity, kids paint the letters of the alphabet on rocks, then take a hike and distribute their rocks in appropriate locations outdoors. (F next to a flower; G in the grass?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13968 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/everybody-needs-a-rock-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/everybody-needs-a-rock-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/everybody-needs-a-rock-1024x839.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/everybody-needs-a-rock-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/everybody-needs-a-rock.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Byrd Baylor\u2019s wonderful picture book <i>Everybody Needs a Rock<\/i> (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011) tells readers just how to choose their own very special rock. For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/if-you-find-a-rock-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/if-you-find-a-rock-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/if-you-find-a-rock.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Peggy Christian\u2019s <i>If You Find a Rock<\/i> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) \u2013 illustrated with lovely color-tinted photographs by Barbara Hirsch Lember \u2013 is a celebration of all the possibilities to be found in rocks: skipping stones, chalk rocks for drawing on sidewalks, mossy rocks for resting on beside a trail, wishing rocks, and more. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lucky_stone-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lucky_stone-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lucky_stone-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lucky_stone-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lucky_stone.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Lucille Clifton\u2019s <i>The Lucky Stone<\/i> (Yearling, 1986), Tee loves her great-grandmother\u2019s stories of the family lucky stone (\u201ca warm stone, shiny black as nighttime\u201d) that has brought good luck to its owners for over a hundred years \u2013 first helping Mandy, a runaway slave, find her way to freedom. For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/staurolite-fairy-cross-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/staurolite-fairy-cross-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/staurolite-fairy-cross.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Fairy stones or fairy crosses \u2013 actually crystals of staurolite \u2013 are found in the Smoky Mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. Said to bring good luck to their owners. (Charles Lindbergh \u2013 a.k.a. Lucky Lindy \u2013 carried one.) Read about them <a href=\"https:\/\/geology.com\/minerals\/staurolite.shtml\">here <\/a>\u2013 or go hunt for your own at Virginia\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcr.virginia.gov\/state_parks\/fai.shtml\">Fairy Stone Park<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Rocks! They make great souvenirs. Check out some of the collectibles in the Smithsonian&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/souvenir-nation-at-the-smithsonian-american-history-museum\">Souvenirs<\/a> exhibit, among them pieces of Plymouth Rock, the Bastille, and the Berlin Wall, and a stone from Joan of Arc&#8217;s dungeon.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Rock Collecting<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lets-go-rock-collecting-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lets-go-rock-collecting-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lets-go-rock-collecting.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Roma Gans, <i>Let\u2019s Go Rock Collecting<\/i> (HarperCollins, 1997) in the Let\u2019s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series covers rock formation, types of rocks, uses of rocks (Roman roads, Egyptian pyramids), and rock collecting. (\u201cThe oldest things you can collect are rocks.\u201d) For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-in-his-head-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-in-his-head-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-in-his-head.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Carol Otis Hurst\u2019s <i>Rocks in His Head<\/i> (Greenwillow Books, 2001) is the picture-book story of her father, an avid rock collector, who \u2013 after losing his job during the Great Depression \u2013 used his passion for rocks to win a job as Curator of Mineralogy at a science museum. It\u2019s a great story of following a dream, even though people around him always mocked him, saying that he had rocks in his head. (To which he replied, \u201cMaybe I have.\u201d) For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/julie-the-rockhound-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/julie-the-rockhound-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/julie-the-rockhound-870x1024.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/julie-the-rockhound-768x904.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/julie-the-rockhound-1306x1536.jpg 1306w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/julie-the-rockhound-1741x2048.jpg 1741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Gail Langer Karwoski\u2019s <i>Julie the Rockhound<\/i> (Sylvan Dell Publishing, 2007), Julie finds a piece of quartz \u2013 and immediately becomes fascinated with rocks and minerals. Included are helpful instructions for hopeful rock collectors. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-collecting-for-kids-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-collecting-for-kids-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-collecting-for-kids-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-collecting-for-kids-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-collecting-for-kids-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-collecting-for-kids-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rock-collecting-for-kids.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Dan R. Lynch\u2019s <em>Rock Collecting for Kids<\/em> (Adventure Publications, 2018) is an introduction to geology for ages 6-12, with basic background information, how-tos, and a photo-illustrated identification guide.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Geological Time, or the Long, Long, Long History of Rocks<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/in-my-own-backyard-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/in-my-own-backyard-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/in-my-own-backyard-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/in-my-own-backyard-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/in-my-own-backyard-1536x1196.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/in-my-own-backyard-2048x1594.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Judi Kurjian\u2019s <i>In My Own Backyard<\/i> (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2000), a child looks out a bedroom window and wonders who lived here before \u2013 and suddenly is plunged into a trip backwards through time, sequentially viewing colonists, native Americans, glaciers and woolly mammoths, dinosaurs and swamps. Included is a timeline. For ages 3-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/life-story-Burton-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/life-story-Burton-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/life-story-Burton-1024x971.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/life-story-Burton-768x728.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/life-story-Burton-1536x1456.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/life-story-Burton.jpg 1899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Virginia Lee Burton\u2019s updated <i>Life Story<\/i> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) \u2013 originally published in 1962 \u2013 is the story of life on Earth in four acts, from the creation of the solar system to the present day. A great resource for all ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pebble-in-my-pocket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The star of Meredith Hooper\u2019s <i>The Pebble in My Pocket<\/i> (Viking Juvenile Books, 1996) is a pebble that originated in a volcano 480 million years ago. The book follows the pebble through geologic time, step by step, to the present day, when it\u2019s found on the ground by a young girl. Included is a timeline. For ages 8-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14027\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Big-Rock-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Big-Rock-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Big-Rock.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Bruce Hiscock\u2019s picture book <i>The Big Rock<\/i> (Aladdin, 1999) is the multi-million-year story of a granite boulder in New York\u2019s Adirondack Mountains. Read it and you\u2019ll never take rocks for granted again. We read it on a picnic on a big rock in the woods and our kids were awed. (\u201cThis rock saw <i>dinosaurs<\/i>!\u201d) For ages 5-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the University of California Museum of Paleontology, learn all about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucmp.berkeley.edu\/help\/timeform.php\">Geologic Time Scale<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Camels Often Sit Down Carefully\u2026Check out this useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eudesign.com\/mnems\/geoperi.htm\">mnemonic<\/a> for memorizing the geological periods in descending order of age.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>Fossils<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fossils-tell-of-long-ago.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Aliki\u2019s <i>Fossils Tell of Long Ago<\/i> (HarperCollins, 1990) is a charmingly illustrated introduction to fossils in the Let\u2019s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series for ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-girl-bone-girl-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-girl-bone-girl-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-girl-bone-girl.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Laurence Anholt\u2019s <i>Stone Girl, Bone Girl<\/i> (Frances Lincoln Children\u2019s Books, 2006) is a picture-book of Mary Anning, who at the age of 12 discovered the skeleton of an ichthyosaur in a cliff near her seaside home in England and went on to become a famous fossil hunter. (One story holds that she was the inspiration behind the traditional tongue-twister \u201cShe sells seashells by the seashore.\u201d) For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-fossils-arrowhds-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-fossils-arrowhds-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-fossils-arrowhds.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Laura Evert\u2019s <i>Rocks, Fossils, and Arrowheads<\/i> (Cooper Square Publishing, 2001) in the Take-Along Guide series in an informational survey of rocks, minerals, fossils, arrowheads, and artifacts, with illustrations of key samples, suggestions on where to find, and assorted interesting facts. Also included are pages for field notes and project ideas (make rock candy, create your own fossil, design a friendship necklace). For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From <i>Smithsonian<\/i> magazine, read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/the-worlds-largest-fossil-wilderness-30745943\/\">The World\u2019s Largest Fossil Wilderness<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com\/\">Fossils Rock<\/a> is a wide-ranging site all about fossils with many examples, extreme fossil facts, coloring pages, puzzles, suggestions for starting a geology club, and a detailed series of lessons on the Clock of Eras, an investigation of geologic time. Included are a printable Clock and a recipe for geologic layer cake.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From the National Park Service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/fossilday\/index.htm\">National Fossil Day<\/a> has an Art &amp; Photo Contest, general information, and an Educational Activities page.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From USGS. <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/gip\/fossils\/\">Fossils, Rocks, and Time<\/a> is a unit on ordering fossils chronologically, the geologic time scale, rock layers, and fossil succession, illustrated with period photos and diagrams.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lost-Worlds-Attenborough-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lost-Worlds-Attenborough-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lost-Worlds-Attenborough-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lost-Worlds-Attenborough.jpg 766w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>David Attenborough\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0764075\/\">Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives<\/a> is a wonderful four-part series on fossils and life on prehistoric Earth. Available on DVD.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51q0CmInylL._SX327_BO1204203200_-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51q0CmInylL._SX327_BO1204203200_-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51q0CmInylL._SX327_BO1204203200_.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Stephen Jay Gould\u2019s <em>Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History<\/em> (W.W. Norton, 1989) is the story of the fossil-rich remains of a 530-million-year-old sea and what it has to tell us about evolution and the history of life on Earth. For older teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mine-for-fossils-kit-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mine-for-fossils-kit-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mine-for-fossils-kit-1024x939.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mine-for-fossils-kit-768x705.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mine-for-fossils-kit.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Discover-Dr-Cool-Fossils-Prehistoric\/dp\/B00GBQ6X62\">Mine for Fossils Science Kit<\/a>, kids can excavate ten genuine fossils, including a shark tooth, an ammonite, and a coprolite (yes, dinosaur poop).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Jewels and Gems<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13975\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gems-seris-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gems-seris-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gems-seris-768x781.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gems-seris.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The Gems: Nature\u2019s Jewels series (Gareth Stevens Publishing) by Eric Ethan is a collection of short picture books, each devoted to a different gem. Titles include <i>Diamonds<\/i>, <i>Emeralds<\/i>, <i>Rubies<\/i>, <i>Turquoise<\/i>, <i>Opals<\/i>, and <i>Sapphires<\/i>. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eyewitness-crystal-and-gem-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eyewitness-crystal-and-gem-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eyewitness-crystal-and-gem-790x1024.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eyewitness-crystal-and-gem-768x995.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eyewitness-crystal-and-gem-1185x1536.jpg 1185w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eyewitness-crystal-and-gem-1580x2048.jpg 1580w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eyewitness-crystal-and-gem.jpg 1929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In the Eyewitness series, <i>Crystal &amp; Gem<\/i> (Dorling Kindersley, 2007) by R.F. Symes and R.R. Harding covers crystal structure, color, identification, uses, and lore and legends, with individual sections devoted to quartz, diamond, corundum, beryl, and opal. Illustrated with spectacular photographs and diagrams. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jewels-Finlay-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jewels-Finlay-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jewels-Finlay.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Victoria Finlay\u2019s <i>Jewels: A Secret History<\/i> (Ballantine Books, 2006) is a fascinating and information-crammed history of gems, variously covering the stories behind amber, jet, pearl, opal, peridot, sapphire, ruby, emerald, and diamond. An absorbing read for teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Stoned-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Stoned-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Stoned-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Stoned-768x1157.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Stoned.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Aja Raden\u2019s <em>Stoned<\/em> (Ecco, 2016), readers learn about everything from Faberge eggs to Japanese pearl divers. Find out why glass beads weren\u2019t a bad exchange for Manhattan and learn the truth about Marie Antoinette\u2019s incriminating diamond necklace. A great read for teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sherlock-holmes-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sherlock-holmes-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sherlock-holmes-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sherlock-holmes-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sherlock-holmes.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in &#8220;The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle,&#8221; Sherlock Holmes solves a mystery surrounding the theft of a priceless gem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minerals.net\/\">Mineral &amp; Gemstone Kingdom<\/a> is a comprehensive online guide to minerals and gemstones. Click on a name for a wealth of information, illustrated with photographs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Check out the Smithsonian\u2019s fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/geogallery.si.edu\/\">Gem Gallery<\/a>.\u00a0 Click on a thumbnail for a photograph and explanation. In alphabetical order from afghanite and agate to zircon and zoisite.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the Burke Museum, learn about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burkemuseum.org\/collections-and-research\/geology-and-paleontology\/minerals\/science-and-legends-birthstones\">Science and Legends Behind Birthstones.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/crystal-kit-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/crystal-kit-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/crystal-kit-1024x915.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/crystal-kit-768x686.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/crystal-kit.jpg 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Crystal-growing kits are available from many science suppliers. Check some out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=crystal+growing+kits&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_2\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>Rocks and Math<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/daves-rock-shop-Murphy-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/daves-rock-shop-Murphy-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/daves-rock-shop-Murphy-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/daves-rock-shop-Murphy.jpg 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Stuart J. Murphy\u2019s <i>Dave\u2019s Down-to-Earth Rock Shop<\/i> (HarperCollins, 2000) in the MathStart series is all about sorting and classification. Josh and Amy have started collecting rocks and need to put their finds in some sort of order. They get help from their neighborhood rock shop, whose window first displays rocks sorted by size and color, then by rock type and Mohs\u2019 scale of hardness. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mancala-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mancala-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mancala.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesprucecrafts.com\/how-to-play-mancala-409424\">Mancala<\/a> \u2013 traditionally played with stones and pits dug in the ground \u2013 is one of the oldest strategy games in the world. See playing instructions at this website.<\/p>\n<p>Games are available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=mancala&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss\">sale<\/a>; there are also <a href=\"https:\/\/artscrackers.com\/2013\/04\/05\/egg-carton-mancala\/\">instructions<\/a> for making your own mancala boards online, most popularly using egg cartons.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolmath-games.com\/0-mancala\/\">Mancala online<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/mathcentral.uregina.ca\/RR\/database\/RR.09.00\/treptau1\/game6.html\">Throw Sticks<\/a> is a traditional Apache game of using sticks and stones. Give it a try! Fun and clever.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/go-game-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/go-game-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/go-game-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/go-game-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/go-game-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/go-game.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>The ancient Asian game of Go was traditionally played with black and white stones. Learn its history and find out how to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgo.org\/what-go\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Geology and Poetry<\/b><\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; height: 873px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/earthshake-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/earthshake-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/earthshake-768x892.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/earthshake.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">By Lisa Westberg Peters, <i>Earthshake: Poems From the Ground Up<\/i> (Greenwillow, 2003) is a beautifully illustrated collection of 22 geology-based poems. Titles include \u201cInstructions for the Earth\u2019s Dishwasher,\u201d \u201cWyoming Layer Cake,\u201d \u201cObituary for a Clam,\u201d and \u201cRecipe for Granite.\u201d For ages 6-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14031 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thunder-undergr-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thunder-undergr-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thunder-undergr-828x1024.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thunder-undergr-768x950.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thunder-undergr-1242x1536.jpg 1242w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thunder-undergr-1656x2048.jpg 1656w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thunder-undergr.jpg 2021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Jane Yolen\u2019s <em>Thunder Underground<\/em> (Wordsong, 2017) is a collection of illustrated poems about the world underground, from animal burrows and fossils to caves and tectonic plates. For ages 5-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 22px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 22px;\">By Robert Browning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/173000\">Among the Rocks<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 40px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 40px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 40px;\">By Ken Nesbitt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetry4kids.com\/poem-501.html#.UfROOGTWwbp\">A Rock Makes An Excellent Puppy<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 77px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 77px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 77px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.geolsoc.org.uk\/2011\/10\/03\/between-a-rock-and-a-bard-geology-and-poetry\/\">Between a Rock and a Bard<\/a> &#8211; a joint celebration of National Poetry Day and Earth Science Week &#8211; discusses geology and poetry, with examples.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 58px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 58px;\">From the Geological Society, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geolsoc.org.uk\/geopoetry\">Poetry and Geology<\/a> has online talks and and a selection of geology-related poems.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 40px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 40px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/sciences-sing-lullabye\">The Sciences Sing a Lullabye<\/a>. Love this poem. (\u201cGeology says: it will be all right.\u201d)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Famous Rocks<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who-carved-the-mt-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who-carved-the-mt-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who-carved-the-mt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who-carved-the-mt.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jean L.S. Patrick\u2019s <i>Who Carved the Mountain? The Story of Mount Rushmore<\/i> (Mount Rushmore History Association, 2005) is a fact-filled picture-book account of the making of the famous national monument featuring the sculpted faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Included is a timeline and bibliography. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rushmore-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rushmore-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rushmore-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rushmore.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From the National Park Service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/moru\/historyculture\/carving-history.htm\">Mount Rushmore<\/a> has information about the history of the carving. (Over 90% of it was done with dynamite.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/whos-that-stepping-on-plymouth-rock-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/whos-that-stepping-on-plymouth-rock-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/whos-that-stepping-on-plymouth-rock-768x977.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/whos-that-stepping-on-plymouth-rock.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jean Fritz\u2019s witty <i>Who\u2019s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?<\/i> (Puffin, 1998) is a history of the famous rock that became a national landmark \u2013 even though the Pilgrims almost certainly didn\u2019t land upon it. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irons-in-fire-mcphee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>John McPhee\u2019s &#8220;Travels of the Rock&#8221; is a more detailed history of Plymouth Rock that appears in <em>Irons in the Fire<\/em> (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 1998). A great read for teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wyomings-devils-tower-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wyomings-devils-tower-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wyomings-devils-tower-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wyomings-devils-tower-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wyomings-devils-tower-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wyomings-devils-tower.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Check our famous rocks from around the world <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wanderlust.co.uk\/content\/world-s-most-famous-stones-stories-behind-them\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/famous-rocks-around-world-4869245\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/balancing-rock-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/balancing-rock-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/balancing-rock-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/balancing-rock.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Check out these photographs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amusingplanet.com\/2012\/04\/10-famous-balancing-rocks-around-world.html\">10 Famous Balancing Rocks<\/a> worldwide.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BlarneyCastle-5ae4587fa9d4f900374bb735-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BlarneyCastle-5ae4587fa9d4f900374bb735-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BlarneyCastle-5ae4587fa9d4f900374bb735-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BlarneyCastle-5ae4587fa9d4f900374bb735-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BlarneyCastle-5ae4587fa9d4f900374bb735-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BlarneyCastle-5ae4587fa9d4f900374bb735.jpg 1881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Learn about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blarney_Stone\">Blarney Stone<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/stone-of-scone-2-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/stone-of-scone-2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/stone-of-scone-2.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stone_of_Scone\">Stone of Scone<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gibraltar-rock-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gibraltar-rock-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gibraltar-rock-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gibraltar-rock.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historic-uk.com\/HistoryMagazine\/DestinationsUK\/History-of-Gibraltar\/\">History of Gibraltar<\/a> is an illustrated history of the famously solid Rock of Gibraltar from prehistory to the present.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>What\u2019s your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netstate.com\/states\/tables\/state_rocks_all.htm\">state rock<\/a>? (Vermont, it turns out, is geologically loaded: we have a state gem, <i>three<\/i> state rocks, a state mineral, and a state fossil. You?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>Rock Art, Ancient and New<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Secret-Cave-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Secret-Cave-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Secret-Cave.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Emily Arnold McCully, <i>The Secret Cave<\/i> (Farrar, Straus, &amp; Giroux, 2010) is the exciting picture-book story of how four young French boys discovered the Lascaux cave paintings. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ug-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ug-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ug-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ug-768x1021.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ug-1155x1536.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ug.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Raymond Briggs\u2019s <i>Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age <\/i>(Knopf, 2002), the Stone Age is <i>all<\/i> stone: Ug and his parents sleep in stone beds under stone blankets, and Ug, to his great discomfort, is even made to wear stone pants. As boy genius, however, Ug has ideas ahead of his time. (\u201cWhy can\u2019t trousers be made of something else? Something softer?\u201d) Eventually he invents the wheel and cooking, only to have both rejected by his parents, who don\u2019t know how to cope with him. (\u201cHe\u2019ll end up painting animals on the walls!\u201d his mother cries in despair.) Which, in a final scene, Ug, now a grown man, does. The book, drawn in blocky panel cartoons, is funny, clever, and ultimately poignant; what looks like a joke soon becomes a parable about the difficulties inherent in trying to change the world for the better. For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/boy-of-painted-cave-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/boy-of-painted-cave-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/boy-of-painted-cave-635x1024.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/boy-of-painted-cave-768x1238.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/boy-of-painted-cave.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Justen Denzel\u2019s <i>Boy of the Painted Cave<\/i> (Puffin, 1996), set in France during the Stone Age, is the story of an orphaned 14-year-old boy who wants to be a cave painter \u2013 but is forbidden by the tribal leader. Cast from the tribe, he befriends a wild dog, is mentored by an aged painter named Graybear, and eventually comes into his own. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cave-of-forgotten-dreams-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cave-of-forgotten-dreams-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cave-of-forgotten-dreams-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cave-of-forgotten-dreams-768x1084.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cave-of-forgotten-dreams.jpg 1063w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Werner Herzog\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1664894\/\">Cave of Forgotten Dreams<\/a> is a spectacular documentary on an expedition into France\u2019s Chauvet caves to view artwork dating back 30,000 years. 90 minutes long, rated G. Available on DVD.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/weaving-past-coloring-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/weaving-past-coloring-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/weaving-past-coloring.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Geri Schrab\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gerischrab.com\/Publications\/weaving-the-past-with-the-present\/\">Weaving the Past with the Present<\/a> is a coloring book of ancient North American petroglyphs and pictographs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/geology.com\/articles\/petroglyphs\/more-petroglyphs.shtml\">Petroglyph Photos<\/a> has a collection of great color photographs of petroglyphs from sites worldwide, including the American Southwest, Hawaii, India, Mexico, and Norway.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/only-one-you-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/only-one-you-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/only-one-you.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Linda Kranz\u2019s rock-illustrated picture book <i>Only One You<\/i> (Cooper Square Publishing, 2006), Adri\u2019s parents decide to pass down useful wisdom to their son (look for new friends, enjoy the simple things, don\u2019t follow the crowd). The illustrations are brightly painted pebbles designed to look like fish. (Make some of your own.) For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hires-LetsRockC1rev-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hires-LetsRockC1rev-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hires-LetsRockC1rev-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hires-LetsRockC1rev-768x993.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hires-LetsRockC1rev-1188x1536.jpg 1188w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hires-LetsRockC1rev.jpg 1237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Linda Kranz\u2019s photo-illustrated\u00a0<i>Let\u2019s Rock<\/i>\u00a0(Cooper Square Publishing, 2003) is a collection of rock-painting projects with step-by-step instructions. For ages 6-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>With this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Creativity-Kids-Hide-Seek-Painting\/dp\/B071FK9TFC\/\">Rock Painting Kit<\/a>, kids ages 5 and up can make painted pet rocks. On the other hand, all you really need here are paint and some nice smooth rocks. Just saying.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Martha Stewart\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/274462\/rock-crafts?\">Rock Crafts<\/a> (\u201cendless possibilities\u201d) has suggestions for rock dominoes, rock bookends, rock refrigerator magnets, and helpful hints for making a lot of rock animals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pebble-plaque.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parents.com\/fun\/activities\/outdoor\/sticks-stones-outdoor-craft-ideas-for-kids\/#page=2\">Pebble Plaque<\/a> is a project in which kids collect a batch of wonderful stones, then combine them with salt dough. The result is awesome.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From Artists Helping Children, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistshelpingchildren.org\/rockscraftspebblesstonescraftskids.html\">Rock Crafts for Kids<\/a> has a long list of projects. Make a paperweight, a crystal rock garden, homemade stepping stones, a pebble mosaic, and a rock necklace.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sculpture-House-Stone-Carving-Starter\/dp\/B000WZSEJC\/\">Sculpture House Stone Carving Kit<\/a> is targeted at beginners: included are carving tools, chunks of alabaster and soapstone, and an instruction booklet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><!--nextpage--><\/h4>\n<h4><b>Rocks as Weapons<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sling-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sling-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sling-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sling-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sling.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>The sling \u2013 the weapon that David used to down Goliath \u2013 is a truly ancient rock-throwing weapon. Read about its history <a href=\"https:\/\/warfarehistorynetwork.com\/2017\/01\/31\/learning-from-david-gloiath-true-origin-sling-weapon\/\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Make your own sling! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherearthnews.com\/diy\/making-and-using-a-venerable-hand-sling.aspx#axzz2aMP0qDw3\">Making and Using the Venerable Hand Sling<\/a> has historical background information and instructions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>How to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/littlebinsforlittlehands.com\/popsicle-stick-catapult-kids-stem-activity\/\">catapult for kids<\/a>. You&#8217;ll need craft sticks and rubber bands.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tabletop-catapult-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tabletop-catapult-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tabletop-catapult-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tabletop-catapult-768x995.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tabletop-catapult.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tabletop-Catapult-Engine-Includes-192-page\/dp\/1435123476\">Tabletop Catapult: Build Your Own Siege Engine<\/a> is a kit for building an historically accurate catapult. Included is a copy of William Gurstelle\u2019s 192-page <i>The Art of the Catapult<\/i>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-art-of-the-catapult-1-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-art-of-the-catapult-1-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-art-of-the-catapult-1-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-art-of-the-catapult-1-768x1098.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-art-of-the-catapult-1-1075x1536.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-art-of-the-catapult-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>William Gurstelle\u2019s <i>The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery<\/i> (Chicago Review Press, 2004) is a collection of 10 working catapult projects with a lot of cool scientific and historical background information (and great emphasis on adult supervision and safety). For ages 11 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stomp-rockets-catapults-and-kaleidoscopes-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stomp-rockets-catapults-and-kaleidoscopes-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stomp-rockets-catapults-and-kaleidoscopes-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stomp-rockets-catapults-and-kaleidoscopes-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stomp-rockets-catapults-and-kaleidoscopes-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stomp-rockets-catapults-and-kaleidoscopes.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Curt Gabrielson\u2019s <i>Stomp Rockets, Catapults, and Kaleidoscopes<\/i> (Chicago Review Press, 2008) is subtitled \u201c30+ Amazing Science Projects You Can Build for Less that $1\u201d \u2013 always a happy thought. The projects are categorized under Electricity and Magnetism; Sound, Light, and Perception; Mechanics; Fluids and Aerodynamics; Biology; and Chemistry. Each comes with a parts list, instructions, and a scientific explanation. (The catapult looks terrific.) For ages 9 and up, with help.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Amazing-Leonardo-nomad-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Amazing-Leonardo-nomad-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Amazing-Leonardo-nomad-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Amazing-Leonardo-nomad-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Amazing-Leonardo-nomad.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Maxine Anderson\u2019s <i>Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself<\/i> (Nomad Press, 2006) covers the life and times of Leonardo with 30 varied projects. For example, readers make plastic, walk-on-water shoes, a camera obscura, a helical air screw, invisible ink, and a catapult.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/41M0VcyyXwL._SX298_BO1204203200_-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/41M0VcyyXwL._SX298_BO1204203200_-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/41M0VcyyXwL._SX298_BO1204203200_.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Jim Paul\u2019s <em>Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon<\/em> (Villard, 1991) is the story of how two friends build a medieval siege weapon capable of hurling rocks into San Francisco Bay. Not just your ordinary project. For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>Fictional Rocks and Magic Rocks<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hill-and-the-rock-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hill-and-the-rock-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hill-and-the-rock-889x1024.jpg 889w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hill-and-the-rock-768x884.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hill-and-the-rock-1334x1536.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hill-and-the-rock-1778x2048.jpg 1778w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In David McKee\u2019s <i>The Hill and the Rock<\/i> (Andersen Press, 2011), Mr. and Mrs. Quest live on top of a hill with a wonderful view \u2013 except from the kitchen window, which is blocked by an enormous rock. Finally, frustrated, they roll the rock down the hill \u2013 with the result that the hill deflates like a balloon, goes flat, and then sinks to form a valley, leaving the Quests at the bottom of a hole. Luckily the rock rolls back down the slope and settles in front of the kitchen window again, the hill inflates, and all is restored to normal. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14000 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/milo-and-magical-stones-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/milo-and-magical-stones-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/milo-and-magical-stones-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/milo-and-magical-stones-768x1173.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/milo-and-magical-stones-1006x1536.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/milo-and-magical-stones-1341x2048.jpg 1341w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/milo-and-magical-stones.jpg 1637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Marcus Pfister\u2019s, <i>Milo and the Magical Stones<\/i> (NorthSouth, 2010), Milo, a little mouse who lives in a cold cave on an island, finds a magical glowing stone that provides both light and heat. All the other (cold) mice promptly want stones of their own \u2013 though Balthazar, a particularly wise mouse, warns that if something is taken away from the island, something must be returned. The book then splits in two: there\u2019s both a happy ending and a sad ending, depending. Basically, it\u2019s a morality tale about environmental responsibility. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/knight-princess-magic-rock-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/knight-princess-magic-rock-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/knight-princess-magic-rock-888x1024.jpg 888w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/knight-princess-magic-rock-768x886.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/knight-princess-magic-rock-1332x1536.jpg 1332w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/knight-princess-magic-rock-1776x2048.jpg 1776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Sara Azizi, <i>The Knight, the Princess, and the Magic Rock<\/i> (Wisdom Tales, 2012) is a picture-book re-telling of the traditional Persian tale about Bijan, a brave knight, who falls in love with Manijeh, princess of an enemy kingdom, and ends up imprisoned in a pit covered by a magic rock. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Jade-Stone-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Jade-Stone-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Jade-Stone-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Jade-Stone.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Caryn Yacowitz\u2019s <i>The Jade Stone<\/i> (Pelican Publishing, 2005), a retelling of a traditional tale, the Great Emperor of China gives a stone carver a perfect piece of green-and-white jade and demands that it be made into a dragon \u2013 but the carver, a true artist, knows that this is not what the stone wants to be. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mouse-soup-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mouse-soup-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mouse-soup.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Arnold Lobel\u2019s <i>Mouse Soup<\/i> (HarperCollins, 2011), a dimwitted weasel catches a mouse with the intention of turning him into soup. Luckily the mouse turns the tables by means of four stories, among them the tale of \u201cTwo Large Stones.\u201d\u00a0 Delightful for ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-brown-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-brown-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-brown-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-brown-768x1026.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-brown-1149x1536.jpg 1149w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-brown.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Marcia Brown\u2019s Caldecott-winning\u00a0<i>Stone Soup<\/i>\u00a0(Aladdin, 1997), originally published in 1947, three soldiers trudging home from the war come to a little French village, where the peasants rush to hide their food \u2013 until the clever soldiers begin to prepare a batch of Stone Soup. Soon everyone comes forward to offer ingredients, and in no time there\u2019s a wonderful feast and a town party. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-in-my-pockets-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-in-my-pockets-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocks-in-my-pockets.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Marc Harshman and Bonnie Collins, <i>Rocks in My Pockets<\/i> (Quarrier Press, 2002) is the story of the Woods family who live on a high mountain where the winds are so wild that they must carry rocks in their pockets to keep from being blown away. They also play games with the rocks, tell stories with rocks, and heat their beds with rocks. Then visitors from the city admire the Woods\u2019s rocks and buy some to take home \u2013 which starts a positive run on rocks. For ages 4-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wretched-stone-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wretched-stone-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wretched-stone.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Chris Van Allsburg\u2019s <i>The Wretched Stone<\/i> (Houghton Mifflin, 1991), told through a ship captain\u2019s log, the crew has brought on board a mysterious glowing stone found on a desert island. They become obsessed with the stone, which has terrible effects; soon all have been transformed into apes. They\u2019re saved by a near-shipwreck that sends the stone to the bottom of the sea. An object lesson about the perils of too much TV for ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sylvester-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sylvester-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sylvester-773x1024.jpg 773w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sylvester-768x1017.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sylvester-1160x1536.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sylvester-1547x2048.jpg 1547w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sylvester.jpg 1888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In William Steig\u2019s <i>Sylvester and the Magic Pebble<\/i> (Aladdin, 2006), Sylvester, a young donkey, collects pebbles \u201cof unusual shape and color.\u201d One rainy Saturday he finds a magic pebble, capable of granting wishes \u2013 but on the way home to tell his parents the news, he encounters a lion, panics, and saves himself by wishing to be turned into a rock. The problem: he\u2019s dropped the pebble and can\u2019t wish himself back again. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>The Center for Philosophy for Children\u00a0has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/questionslibrary\/sylvester-and-the-magic-pebble\/\">guidelines and discussion questions<\/a> to accompany <i>Sylvester and the Magic Pebble<\/i>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>For more resources, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/philosophy\/\">Philosophy<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anansi-and-rock-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anansi-and-rock-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anansi-and-rock-1024x984.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anansi-and-rock-768x738.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anansi-and-rock-1536x1476.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anansi-and-rock-2048x1969.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Eric Kimmel\u2019s <i>Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock<\/i> (Holiday House, 1990) is a West African folktale featuring Anansi, the trickster spider, who finds a moss-covered rock that magically puts animals to sleep. He comes up with a nefarious scheme in which he leads animals to the rock, puts them to sleep, and then steals their stores of food \u2013 until shy little Bush Deer puts a spoke in his wheel. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/great-stone-face-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/great-stone-face-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/great-stone-face-847x1024.jpg 847w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/great-stone-face-768x929.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/great-stone-face.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Gary Schmidt\u2019s 32-page <i>The Great Stone Face<\/i> (Eerdman\u2019s Books for Young Readers, 2005) is a re-telling of the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne tale in which a prophecy holds that someone will be born who looks just like New Hampshire\u2019s Great Stone Face \u2013 the rock formation commonly called the Old Man of the Mountains \u2013 and he will be \u201cthe noblest person of his time.\u201d For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Read Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s <i>The Great Stone Face<\/i> online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.online-literature.com\/hawthorne\/139\/\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>The Great Stone Face \u2013 a.k.a. the Old Man of the Mountains \u2013 is no more; once a series of granite ledges on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire\u2019s White Mountains, the Great Stone Face broke away and fell in 2003. Read about its history <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waterstone-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waterstone-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waterstone.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Rebecca Rupp\u2019s <i>The Waterstone<\/i> (Candlewick, 2005) features a quartet of tiny characters \u2013 Tad and Birdie of the Fisher Tribe, Ditany of the Hunters, and Will of the Diggers \u2013 who are on a quest to regain the fabled Waterstone from a powerful and evil nixie who is withholding the world\u2019s water. This one got a STARRED REVIEW from Kirkus! For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harry-potter-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harry-potter-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harry-potter-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harry-potter-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harry-potter-1071x1536.jpg 1071w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harry-potter.jpg 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Is there anyone in the world who <i>hasn\u2019t<\/i> read Harry Potter? In Book One of J.K. Rowling\u2019s ubiquitous series, <i>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone<\/i> (or, in England, <i>Philosopher\u2019s Stone<\/i>) (Scholastic, 1999), Harry and his Hogwarts pals attempt to prevent the evil Lord Voldemort from stealing the fabled sorcerer\u2019s stone. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crystalinks.com\/philosopherstone.html\">The Philosopher\u2019s Stone<\/a> \u00a0&#8211; in alchemy a substance supposedly capable of turning base metals into gold.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sword-in-the-stone-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sword-in-the-stone-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sword-in-the-stone-699x1024.jpg 699w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sword-in-the-stone-768x1125.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sword-in-the-stone.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>T.H. White\u2019s <i>The Sword in the Stone<\/i> (Philomel, 1993) is the first part of his much longer King Arthur saga, <i>The Once and Future King<\/i>. This is a stand-alone family read, the story of Sir Ector\u2019s ward, young Wart, and his astonishing education by the old wizard, Merlin, culminating with his pulling the sword from the stone and revealing himself as King Arthur. Wonderful for ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-faced-boy-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-faced-boy-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-faced-boy.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Paula Fox\u2019s <i>The Stone-Faced Boy<\/i> (Front Street, 2005) is the story of Gus, middle child in a large and noisy family, who hides his emotions behind an expressionless face. The only person who understands seems to be his great-aunt Hattie &#8211; who gives him a geode, a rock filled with beautiful crystals inside. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magic-rocks-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magic-rocks-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magic-rocks.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Grow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=magic+rocks&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_1\">Magic Rocks<\/a>! Kits come with a tank, ingredients, instructions, and (depending on the version) a figurine of a shipwreck, shark, pirate treasure chest, or octopus. Rapidly grows a forest of dramatic crystals. Recommended for ages 10 and up without supervision; all ages with. Kits cost about $10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/make-your-own-magic-rocks-607653\">Make Your Own Magic Rocks<\/a> explains how to make your own chemical crystal garden.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From Science Buddies, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencebuddies.org\/science-fair-projects\/project_ideas\/Chem_Purchasing.shtml\">Guide to Purchasing Chemicals<\/a>, which has explanations, a common-names list, and suppliers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocks! 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