Lol..Grammas must have a corner market on rocks in your pockets! I am one of them to. I just told my sister in law that I wish they would have had classes taught this way when I was a kid. I would have totally taken a very different career pathway!!!
Ok so i have some important info that will change history books the world over. Do to a recent parasitic infection I picked up that caused me to do a lot of research into the local prolerty and farm animals around my property, and i also noticed a lot of crystal rock structuresI was finding shaped with a serpentine or skull look to a lot of funding daily on-the-ground picking them clean and finding more daily on the ground. so I started doing some footnotes and video recording and one day stumble across a portal opening up about the size of the palm of my hand on the top of a blue Buick with metallic flakes on it. The paint on the hood of the car started to bend and eyes began to Peer out. A translucent worm like with snakish
You guys are awesome:) I didn't realize this was intended for kids till half way through:) I'm discovering the world of crystals lately, and wanted some sceintific context.. really enjoyed this. I love that Dad comes to class clueless and learns everything with us.. that's sweet:)
I have been an avid rockhound since childhood. All things pertaining to geology and especially paleontology, fascinate me. When I was younger, fossils were my big passion, but now I am adding things like peacock copper, agates, quartz, desert rose, etc. to my collection. I think it is the combination of the aesthetic beauty and the scientific information that attracts me. My uncle was also a collector and did lapidary work, which I have never done as I am not good with my hands.
Outstanding teacher. Great team. His questions, provide a wonderful natural flowing sequence of questions that allow her to fill in the blanks in her highly expressive way. May your tribe increase!
This is the best video about rock identification and explanation I’ve ever seen! You did such a great job, I enjoyed every second of watching this and I’m sure will end up watching it many more times. I really appreciate you making this! 😊
Awesom video thank you 💯🙏I am a grandma 62 and a lover of rocks ,all rocks,minerals and raw crystals.Collect some .Thank you so interesting and so informative. Bless You with Love and Light thank you .
Was looking for geology information as I prospect for gold. Found your site and watched. Reminded me of kindergarten how you presented your information and realized you are teaching. I let it flow and giggled with enthusiasm, but during your presentation I received an education on things I didn't know. Thankyou with happy smiles
I had an in-box thinking about Rock. Education broadened my eyes on how to see the object in my life as a metaphor as someone described my life and experience.
I’m a grandma to crystal, rock, etc. loving granddaughter in the 4th grade. She gets her curiosity from me who lived most of my life in Colorado and am the daughter of a hard rock miner (molybdenum). The book, Colorado Roadside Geology “ was my bible for many years. I now live in Hawaii which is kind of limited for rock hounding. I have a large collection and have several rocks/minerals that I have never been able to make a ‘for certain’ identification. I came upon your channel while searching for guidance to identify these specimens. I’m thrilled to be an adult subscriber! My granddaughter agrees that you and your husband are wonderful teachers who make learning fun! I’m certain the math videos will be another favorite.
This video was super fun and engaging, I am a highschool student preparing for a science Olympiad competition and I really had no interest or clue, but saw this field of study as something obligatory. You guys really turned my mindset back to a child fascinating over toys. Thank you so much :D
i am a lover of rocks. all rocks. minerals. raw crystals, etc. i have trouble identifying them and always have. i have reseached, i have books.... You Science Momma are by far the BEST book i ever read!!! i am a grandmother and i will share this with my little ones while we sit and identify some of my huge collection some day. Thank you soooo very much for sharing this video with us kids :) :) :) i am a kid at heart and yet i am 52 :D RockLove 💙💙
I am just trying to get into identifying rocks and stones and have seen many videos about it, but just couldn't connect all kinds of dots. Your video made so many things very clear to me, I will need to save it and will surely watch it several more times in the future. Lots of thanks from a 62 year old Dutch guy retiring in Portugal!
The old stoves used for heating used to have mica windows to see if it was lit. This was from back in the forties and fifties. This dates me as I was born in 1945. Loved your show.
Being into stones and minerals heavily and being a total fossil addict here on east coast of UK this video I found most interesting, thanks for sharing your knowledge :)
I have collected rocks since childhood. I am 60 and inherited a giant collection. I have my a big collection from father. Also have rocks from my mother and her mother. I have a lot of things that i do not know what they are. Recently moved to Arkansas from Florida. Bought 40 acres with cave and waterfalls. Going to make a dig area as well as tunnel into mountain. Great video.
I led a busy life but I always loved rocks and marveled over how they were made with water and or heat and minerals. Good for You to share your Knowledge!
Such an awesome talk. I'm 65 and living on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Our beach has so many colours of quartz, jaspers, greenstone, and so many rocks I still haven't identified. I've made huge rock gardens at home with different coloured sections flowing into each other. I was also a cave guide at Waitomo many years ago. I explored fabulous caves around there with gypsum flowers growing out of the walls, and incredible selenite and aragonite crystsls, as well as the usual calcite. I'm so lucky to have seen all those amazing things. I've been a nature photographer a long time, so I've seen a bit 😷
What a great presentation. Ive always loved rocks. Rocks lead to lead to geology and the history of this planet. Also if your looking for say gold you need to know rocks and the way they are formed . Excellent presentation. !
Baking soda is sodium bi-carbonate, it is not calcium carbonate. Limestone, marble and chalk are indeed calcium carbonate. Enjoyed learning more about rocks, thank you!
My dad polished rocks. The tumbler works like sand paper. You change the mixture in the tumbler after so many days Goin to a finer grit each time. Eventually the final polish. I've never seen a river rock as polished as one from a tumbler.
I love this video, thank you for the much needed information. I make bracelets, and I love Obsidian Beads. I also look up meanings of what each Crystal.
One of the most interesting videos that I have watched on the supject of rocks and one of the wealthiest in information. I wonder if we can test rocks with a daimond tester, and what can the result tell us ?
The book or notes that we refer to in the video are a free download available at science.mom/earthscience. If you just want the rock identification flowchart and worksheets, you can get those on our Teachers Pay Teachers page: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rock-Identification-Flowchart-7192916
I am employed by a mining company in central new york,and I operate a wash plant in a gravel bed,I just learned so much from watching this video. Once job,and thank you.
When I took an engineering course in materials for industry the prof was an X-ray diffraction expert. He put up a slide of rock salt and asked what the structure was and I told him it was halite, common salt. No one else knew what it was. I thought everyone that ever picked up a chemistry book knew that structure.
Recently discovered soo many cute shiny blue and green rocks on my hike today. They are all weighing like normal small rocks. Some are shiny and some have visible layers in different colours. Some go from a blue, to green, to then dark colours like navy and black. They were from a path and they looked very nice so i just had to grab some for me and my little sister.
The beginning hellos remind me of Romper Room. The tumbling is a long process that involves many steps, changing the grit size as it approaches the glossy look of that tiger eye. I have a vibratory tumbler I use to polish over and other metals.
Nick Zentner does a lot of great geology content, mostly college level, but he does a great job of making it accessible. His geo 101 covers this video and much more.
@@sweetfolly9428 Thanks so much for letting us know! The link is fixed now (the flowchart is page 80 in the PDF file you'll get when you click on "get the notes" on our website). We also put the rock flowchart on our Teachers Pay Teachers page for people who just want the flowchart and not a 100+ page Earth Science ebook: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rock-Identification-Flowchart-7192916
Hello Science Mom (from India): . How do we calculate the strength of rock ? And on what parameters ,the rock does classify specially in Tunnel excavation? How we would classify /identify like I, II, III, IV and V of rocks? Please explain me !
This is awesome! Just looking up how to identify rocks on RU-vid and I'm pleasantly surprised to see a guy I went to High School with. Well hello SB, glad to see you're doing well. So fitting that you're wearing a Math shirt, btw. - Josh M.
@@Josh1888USU Just wanted to let you know if you haven't found out already, the person you responded to is actually a scammer. I hope you haven't tried reaching out to them using the number given...
I think one of my favorite crystals that is quartz is the Arkansas courts and the other one is the Herkimer diamond because it is a different type of quartz it's actually called a Herkimer diamond because of where it's located and it's the only place you can find it and instead of having eight facets it has 16 I believe like a diamond does and it's clarity can be very clear to cloudy and I have quite the collection of both
Basalt can actually form in alot of places that are not Hawaii. There's some Basalt formations in Seattle and many of them are open to the public. BC in Canada has a lot of these mineral formations as well.
@@putra-ardaTV there are metal detectors and radar could detect changes in overall rock structure or composition, but I'm not sure if mineral detectors are a thing (or, if they do exist, if they are practical or useful)
I have piles of rocks in my bedroom , kitchen, living room ,backyard and a small pile residing currently in my noodle , head that is .Thank you and take care now .
Thats so cool that ypu start off w quart tigers eye and aqua marine shut up then opsl these r my top favs!! And star sapphires are my number one n I love moonstone I just love them all tho!!! Ty for this 💓 awesome video its cool to see tigers eye raw thats rare to find and see !
cute couple. (about me ) my grandpa built a tumbler and rock saw in the late 30s and i have several bags of rocks he polished from 1939. many many types that i still have to identify. along with slabs he cut and polished. he made me a rock hound as a boy. also we found many arrowheads in the wild together. he was my best friend. you could say our bond was rock solid. i love climbing 14neers in colo. i always grab a bunch of rocks at the bottom then drop them off at the top, people say im weird. i have bagged all 54 and on the second round now at 65 years old .
Ya ppl think im crazy when I'm digging up rocks their all like whatcha looking for u find gold .. I hate it..I dont care I bring rocks home from everywhere I sometimes find rocks in the strangest places but I love all rocks and of course I freaking love arrowheads I would be stoked to find one.
@@melissahemenway565 its getting harder to find them but there are still arrowheads just laying on the ground where villages used to be. ask a native american if they could show you. arrowheads are the heart of indian tribes
