Most Wanted Minerals

As Reiss’ top investigative geologist, you must construct a wanted poster for one of the area’s most hardened criminals … a mineral of your choice. You will need to do a little research to help you create your wanted poster. Use your textbook, notebook, and the Internet. You can find links to several Web sites on the blog. You will need to find properties like hardness, luster, color, etc. to use for your Hardened Criminal's description. Create a "Wanted" poster with a large, colorful "mug shot" and all the data you have collected.

Your poster must include the following parts.

1. Vital statistics (properties) for your mineral: -Hardness (Mohs Number and what it means: scratched by? scratches?) - Luster -Streak -Color -Chemical Composition (Example: H20) -Any Special Properties (see book or internet) 2. Mug shot -A picture of the mineral (this can be printed off the computer or drawn by you) 3. Uses Why is your mineral wanted? Explain how your mineral is useful to humans.

As Reiss’ top investigative geologist, you must construct a wanted poster for one of the area’s most hardened criminals … a mineral of your choice. You will need to do a little research to help you create your wanted poster. Use your textbook, notebook, and the Internet. You can find links to several Web sites on the blog. You will need to find properties like hardness, luster, color, etc. to use for your Hardened Criminal's description. Create a "Wanted" poster with a large, colorful "mug shot" and all the data you have collected.

Your poster must include the following parts.

1. Vital statistics (properties) for your mineral: -Hardness (Mohs Number and what it means: scratched by? scratches?) - Luster -Streak -Chemical Composition (Example: H20) -Color -Any Special Properties (see book or internet) 2. Mug shot -A picture of the mineral (this can be printed off the computer or drawn by you) 3. Uses Why is your mineral wanted? Explain how your mineral is useful to humans. Name ______Date ______Class ______Wanted Poster Rubric

Vital ____ Hardness: ___ Moh’s number ___scratched by Statistics ____ Luster (Information ____Streak is accurate) ____ Color

____ Chemical Composition (Example: H20) ____ Special Properties Mug Shot ____ Picture of mineral Uses ___ Explain how it is used by humans Other ___ Attractive/Colorful ___ Neat (easy to read, not crumpled) Obvious time was used to complete (not done in homeroom) Score ______x 2 = ______5 points each Comments:

Name ______Date ______Class ______Wanted Poster Rubric

Vital ____ Hardness: ___ Moh’s number ___scratched by Statistics ____ Luster (Information ____Streak is accurate) ____ Color

____ Chemical Composition (Example: H20) ____ Special Properties Mug Shot ____ Picture of mineral Uses ___ Explain how it is used by humans Other ___ Attractive/Colorful ___ Neat (easy to read, not crumpled) Obvious time was used to complete (not done in homeroom) Score ______x 2 = ______5 points each Comments:

Approved Web sites:

Amethyst Galleries: Minerals Gallery - http://mineral.galleries.com

Smithsonian Gem and Mineral Collection http://www.gimizu.de/sgmcol/

Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom http://www.minerals.net/

Geology.com http://geology.com/minerals/

State Symbols (geology – rocks)

http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Lists/state_geological.html Minerals for Research Sign up Sheet

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Aluminum Antimony Barium Bauxite Beryllium Chromite Clays Cobalt Copper Diamond Emerald Fluorite Gallium Gold Gypsum; Halite Indium Iron Ore Lead Lithium Opal Manganese Mica Molybdenum Nickel Perlite Platinum Phosphate Potash Pyrite

Quartz (silica) Ruby Sapphire Silver Staurolite Sulfur Tantalum Titanium Tungsten Uranium Vanadium Zeolites Zinc