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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.
| Investigations 2, 3 and 4 in the "Earth Materials" module and pages 30-33, 12-13 and 14-15 in "Science Stories" provide moderate coverage of this standard. |
Aspects that help student learning:
The focus on one mineral property at a time in the investigations aids student understanding.
Aspects that do not help student learning:
Students have limited experience using a full table of diagnostic properties to identify minerals.
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