Rocks and Minerals

This lab manual provides students with hands-on experience studying Geology in a lab setting. The exercises provide instructional content for working with rocks and minerals. Several labs also focus on rock cycles, plate tectonics, rock forming minerals, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, fossils, and plate boundaries, all focused on the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The fifteen labs and three field trip modules in this manual are printed in color and have perforated pages for students to tear out and turn in.