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Rocks and Minerals

Memorize Moh's Hardness Scale

with the phrase

"Tall Girls Can Flirt And Only Quiet Tigers Can Dance."

Each initial letter represents a mineral:
Talc (1)
Gypsum (2)
Calcite/Copper (3)
Fluorite (4)
Apatite (5)
Orthoclase Feldspar (6)
Quartz (7)
Topaz (8)
Corundum (9)
Diamond (10)

The number in parentheses is the Moh's Hardness number.

Thanks to Rita Leary at Chicago Public Schools for this great memory booster!

Build Platonic Solids by copying these patterns

or use the links below for more help.
pattern for models

Click here for a printer-ready .pdf file.

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