Earth Digger Clubs

You have the very challenging task of leading your children’s program.  You are expected to create informative and fun activities—month after month—and there are few resources available.  Don’t worry!  We have developed a series of 1-hour activities about minerals and mineral collecting for your group’s younger members.  You lead your kids through these activities.  At the end of the meeting, each child can be presented a patch as a reward for completing the activity.  Terrific resource for mineral clubs, scouts, museum programs, camp programs and more!

In the Quartz, Fluorite, Calcite, Gypsum, and Pyrite

activities, young collectors look at real specimens, study their crystal shapes, make paper crystals of each mineral species, and learn about the minerals’ physical properties and uses.

 

$2.50 / kit

A “Kit” includes a patch and all the pages needed for the activity.

Making Crystals I & II  In Part I, club members will make paper models of crystals and compare them with real specimens.  In Part II, club members will learn how to make salt and alum crystals. $2.00 each.  Sold separately.

Hardness

Club member’s learn Mohs’ Hardness Scale and practice testing the hardnesses of known minerals and then some of

unknown minerals.  $2.00 each.

Building a Mineral Collection I & II

In Part I, club members learn the

importance of safely storing, numbering, and labeling specimens.  In Part II, they practice trading specimens and buying specimens using “Mineral Money”.  $2.50 each.  Sold separately.

Mineral Fun!

Discover some fun properties of minerals: natural magnetism, fiber optic properties, fluorescence, double refraction, and more.  $2.00 each.

Minerals Across America

This kit is for more advanced collectors.  It involves gathering a collection of minerals, 2 minerals from each of 10 different states. $2.00 each.

Mineral Color

Why do minerals have different colors?  Experience the beauty of the rainbow of colors found in the mineral kingdom.   $2.00 each.

All patches are available separately (without the activity pages) for only

$2.00/patch.  Each patch is 3 inches in size!!!