Studying the resources of the earth - minerals, gemstones, earth's resources? Just need a good research project? This project has all the steps laid out, as well as a grading rubric. Students choose an earth's resources from a provided list to research. (Some of the possible choices are: diamond, pearl, gold, silver, clay, loam, sand, granite, ruby, sapphire, uranium, petroleum, and obsidian.)
There are questions in this project to help guide their research. Students should use books, kid-