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		<title>Join us on a Mineral Mission!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first kit in our new Rock Detectives line is now available. Take your children on a Mineral Mission with this fantastic kit. Your Mineral Mission kit comes complete with six cool mineral samples, a hand magnifier and a CD with over 25 pages of mineral information, sample identification activities, puzzles, coloring pages, and experiments.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="float: left; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;" src="http://www.minimegeology.com/shop/images/th_MinMission_Kit_Web.jpg" alt="Rock Detectives Mineral Mission Kit" width="150" height="146" />The first kit in our new Rock Detectives line is now available. Take your children on a Mineral Mission with this fantastic kit. Your Mineral Mission kit comes complete with six cool mineral samples (lepidolite, rhodonite, tourmaline, limonite, epidote and amazonite), a hand magnifier and a CD with over 25 pages of mineral information, sample identification activities, puzzles, coloring pages, and experiments. Other fun activities on the CD include creating your own adventure story, making a personal geologist&#8217;s field notebook and your very own rock collection box!  <a href="http://www.minimegeology.com/home/mgeo/page_313_38/mineral_mission.html" target="_blank">See our newest Mineral Mission kit today!</a></p>
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		<title>Why is science education important for kids?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science education sometimes takes a back seat with the push of reading and math being so strong.  But, science is a part of our daily life.  Everything we do and deal with in life is science from cooking, playing ball, growing a garden and understanding how technologies work to watching a rain storm.  Understanding science [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Science education sometimes takes a back seat with the push of reading and math being so strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But, science is a part of our daily life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Everything we do and deal with in life is science from cooking, playing ball, growing a garden and understanding how technologies work to watching a rain storm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Understanding science helps kids appreciate and relate to the world around them.</span></strong> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elementary school is the perfect time to get kids interested in science when they are naturally curious. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Science education fuels that curiosity and provides children with valuable ideas, skills, and potential future career choices. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, scientists are an important part of the future of our world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without them we would not be able to predict the weather or earthquakes, understand global warming, cure illnesses and take care of the sick, or have many of the products that enhance our lifestyles today.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Geology education teaches children about earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and tsunamis arming them with knowledge and Earth processes that can protect their health and safety throughout their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Children with a basic understanding of rocks and minerals are able to translate that knowledge to a wide variety of activities and potential careers such as gardening, groundwater recovery, pollution control and clean-up, engineering, environmental research, oil and gas exploration and recovery, road construction, mining, energy production and jewelry manufacturing.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a title="Mini Me Geology" href="http://www.minimegeology.com" target="_blank">Mini Me Geology</a> can be a valuable resource for parents and teachers who are interested in promoting science education with their children and students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Our rock and minerals kits give kids hands-on experience with the samples and help to teach reasoning and identification skills as they identify the samples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Our free geology education information, word puzzles, project ideas and experiments are designed to give children a better understanding of geology, while having a little fun too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Please visit our website </span><a href="http://www.minimegeology.com/"><span style="font-size: small;">www.MiniMeGeology.com</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> for more information.</span></span></p>
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