Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! A rock is a rock, part of cliff, road or sea. But now can you guess what else it can be? A rock can be a…dinosaur bone, stepping-stone, hopscotch marker, fire sparker. Find out about the many roles a rock can play in this poetic exploration of rocks around the world. Laura Purdie Salas's lyrical, rhyming text and Violeta...

"Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon explains to readers the different types of rocks and minerals with fascinating facts and stunning full-color photographs. Readers will learn how to identify and classify various kinds of stones, such as granite, sandstone, basalt, quartz, and crystal."-- Publisher

Learn fun facts about rocks and minerals.

Celebrates the variety of rocks that can be found.

"Simple text and full-color photographs provides a brief introduction to rocks and how they form"--

I See Rocks introduces emergent readers to a variety of rock attributes while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. I See Rocks includes tools for teachers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table...

Rocks and minerals are the building blocks of our world, but there's a huge and fascinating variety of these materials, from the roundest gray pond rock to the most brilliant and sparkly diamond. Readers will learn about all manner of rocks and minerals, as well as their properties, types, and uses. Color photos and diagrams allow curious geologists in training to study rocks and minerals in detail, while hands-on activities and projects will encourage...

Rudie the origami dinosaur may seem new to the neighborhood, but she's been around this block before. Rudie knows that rocks are cool, but her friend the stick man doesn't have a clue. Hang out with Rudie, and check out tons of rocks!

Provides an overview of sedimentary rocks, discussing their formation, location, identifying characteristics, history, significance, and uses throughout the world.

An introductory guide to mineral and rock collecting, with illustrations and descriptions of minerals, divided into classifications of metallic and non-metallic minerials, and igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, providing identifying information about each specimen's distinctive features, appearance, color, occurrence, along with interesting facts; includes information on home and field equipment, and how to catalog the collection.