A mineral is a substance that is neither animal nor plant. Halite is a common mineral used to make salt. Bear practiced saying "mineral" and "Halite" as I presented the next two works.
Pouring salt
Grinding salt
Salt Paintings
To be honest, we haven't had time to get to these, but we've used salt in painting many times. Our favorite thing is to sprinkle it over watercolor paint and leave pretty effects. I had planned to have her crush colored chalk with her mortar and pestle and color the salt with it. Apparently, you can also color rock salt the same way you would pasta or rice, but we didn't try that eithre.
Ores
Ores are minerals that contain metallic material. I created some cards to use with 4 of the ores in our box of rock specimens. One card shows the ore and the matching card shows a product made from the metal extracted from that ore. For example, gold ore - gold necklace. I only chose four ores so as to not overwhelm her. I would have loved to have an actual copper bell to place in the basket next to the copper ore, or a real silver spoon. The picture cards will have to suffice.
Thanks! Interesting post :-)
ReplyDeleteBear must be a budding geologist same way Anna is a budding astronaut. We seem to be stuck in space for weeks now, but I don't mind since I am trying to follow her interests.
ReplyDeleteGreat post as always!! Kerri
ReplyDeleteI'll be curious if you're able to get the chalk crushing done and what you do with it.
ReplyDeleteI love your geology posts. The cards are really great. I may have to experiment with coloring salt with chalk too. That sounds interesting.
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