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These correlations are for older materials. They do not cover the materials adopted in 2006.
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4b Students know how to identify common rock-forming minerals (including quartz, calcite, feldspar, mica, and hornblende) and ore minerals by using a table of diagnostic properties.


Holistic Rating: Moderate coverage of this standard.
Pages 148-150 and 158-159 provide moderate coverage of this standard.

Aspects that help student learning:
Text provides a useful mineral identification table (page 150).

Text makes the interesting point that writing with a lead pencil is a good example of doing a mineral streak test.


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