1. Add “Minerals Gallery Walk” To your Table of Concents
BELLWORK

2. Objectives
Students will be able to identify how the earth is affected by long- term and short- term geological cycles and the influence of man.​
SPI Use a table of physical properties to classify minerals.​
I can classify a mineral based on it's physical properties.​

3. Gallery Walk
You will have 1 minute 43 seconds at each table to answer the questions using the Minerals Identification Chart at each question.
Every person needs to record each answer.
If you finish early, carefully the examine the mineral samples that demonstrate each property. THESE ARE FRAGILE!

4. Fluorescence
Which mineral has a white streak, gray color, and is the hardest mineral on the chart?
Which one is colorless and yellow, and has a vitreous luster?

5. Mohs Hardness Scale What mineral can scratch gypsum but not a diamond?
_________ can be easily scratched by a fingernail but cannot scratch a penny.

6. Luster
True or False: Quarts has multiple colors and can be scratched by other minerals on the chart.
______________ comes in multiple colors and is very soft.

7. Hardness Which green mineral is harder than mica?
Which mineral with a white streak has the same hardness as sphalerite?

8. Which two minerals have the same hardness?
Streak
Which two minerals have the same hardness?
Identify the mineral that has a gray color, earthy luster

9. Cleavage/Fracture
Students are trying to identify a mineral that has a white streak, a perfect, octahedral cleavage, and is black. Use the chart to identify that mineral.
Which mineral has a vitreous luster, a white streak, and is can be scratched by Fluorite?

10. Color
___________ has a white streak, is very soft, and has a pearly luster.
Which mineral has a white streak, a waxy luster, is gray, and can scratch lepidolite?