On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class learns at first hand about different kinds of rocks and the formation of the earth.
The Standard Deviants explore minerals. You'll learn all the basics. Then you'll find out about magma and intrusive rocks. You'll learn about igneous rocks, plutons and magma.
Four and a half billion years ago, how did life emerge on Earth? Robert Hazen advances a startling idea, that the rocks on Earth were not only essential to jump-starting life, but then, life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we rely upon today.