Rocks & Minerals

Kona Dolomite from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Image credit: Joan Stoker

(See below for  more about this image)

To earn this badge, the Juniors should learn how to identify some of the most common minerals and know the basic rock types. Other activities you might choose involve learning about crystals and growing crystals and your State Rock, State Mineral, or State Gemstone. This unit also helps Juniors start building and storing their own rock and mineral collections, including keeping accurate records of each specimen. 

Badge 1 - Rocks and Minerals.pdf

The Rocks & Minerals Badge is basic to anyone who loves to collect rocks. 

It is also one of the badges that may take more than one session to complete effectively depending on the length of your meetings.

<--Click on upper right to open the manual page and see the Requirement options (Activities) offered.

Once opened, you will see the option to print or download this section on your screen.

 SUPPLEMENTAL / OPTIONAL MATERIALS 

The materials below illustrate how some leaders taught this badge, using 3-4 requirements they chose for their groups. See the Badge manual for other requirement activities you may like better. 

   Just mouse over the upper right of each picture, and click on the arrow to view or download.     Click on the red  PDF icon for the meeting outlines.

Rock and Mineral badge AFMS.elem.pdf

For Younger Juniors Supplemental Worksheet Packet for FRA Juniors Gr. K-2

Rock and Mineral badge AFMS.elem-LEADER.pdf

Leader Key for Gr. K-3  for Supplemental Worksheet Packet for FRA Juniors Gr. K-2

Rock and Mineral badge AFMS.IntAdv.pdf

For Juniors Gr 3/4-12 for Supplemental Worksheet Packet for Juniors Gr. 3-12 (print pages appropriate to ages of your group)

Rock and Mineral badge AFMS.IntAdv-LEADER.pdf

Leader Key for Gr. 3/4-12 for Supplemental Worksheet Packet Juniors Gr. 3-12 (choose pages appropriate to ages of your group)

Suggested Meeting Outlines from another leader 

About the image on this page

Kona Dolomite is a unique Pre-Cambrian rock unit that outcrops in the Kona Hills/Marquette area of Michigan. The wavy layer is a fossil stromatolite, built up by mats of cyanobacteria. The dolomite has been tilted and metamorphosed, iron-stained and silicified, making it an attractive rock for landscaping and lapidary.

Image Credit: Joan Stoker