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Rock Detectives On Sale this Month!

tracyb — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:27:59 +0000

During February you can enjoy 15% off of our best kits for elementary-aged children. Each kit has 6 or 7 samples, a hand magnifier, and a CD with 30 pages of geology fun. One the CD you’ll find information about your samples, identification games, puzzles, experiments, activities and coloring pages. Try all six kits:

Mineral Mission
Igneous Investigation
Metamorphic Mystery
Sedimentary Sleuthing
Crystal Experiments
Crystal Geometry

Save $20 when you buy a set of 6 Rock Detectives Kits!

tracyb — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:08:15 +0000

Get all 6 Rock Detectives kits for the price of 5 when you buy the full set. Each kit comes complete with six or 7 cool rock or mineral samples, a hand magnifier and a CD with 30 pages of rock and 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’s field notebook and your very own rock collection box!

You will receive all 6 kits: Mineral Mission, Sedimentary Sleuthing, Metamorphic Mystery, Igneous Investigation, Crystal Geometry and Crystal Experiment. View this short video about our Rock Detectives kits:

The CD requires free Adobe Reader 9.0 which can be downloaded at www.adobe.com. Mini CDs fit in center of tray disk drives. Mini CDs may not play in slot drives without adapter. Consult computer manufacturer’s recommendations before inserting the mini CD into a slot drive.

Learn about our kits – new videos from Mini Me Geology

tracyb — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:01:19 +0000

If a picture is worth a thousand words what is a video worth? Well, I’m not sure but our new Rock Detectives video shows you tons of great features of our latest rock and mineral kit series. Check it out here:

Rock Detectives Video

If you are curious about our larger kits and all of their unique and awesome features, check out their video here:

My Rockin’ Collection Kits Videos

As always, we are happy to provide you with recommendations any time about which kit is appropriate for your budding geologist! Email us or give us a call at 888-886-2197!

Start Your Holiday Shopping Now and Save 10%

tracyb — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:41:18 +0000

We have something for everyone on your gift list! For your youngest rockhounds, check out our newest line of kits – Rock Detectives. This kit series of six different kits is great for children age 6 and above who can read. Adult supervision is required for some of the experiments so plan for some wonderful family fun! Choose from Mineral Mission, Igneous Investigation, Metamorphic Mystery, Sedimentary Sleuthing, Crystal Geometry and Crystal Experiments.

Our deluxe set of kits, the My Rockin’ Collection series, is great for younger children who want a larger collection and middle school and teens who are contemplating a future in the sciences. This series has four kits in the collection: Minerals, Igneous Rocks, Sedimentary Rocks, and Metamorphic Rocks. We also have a cool storage bag which holds up to four kits.

Have a collector in the family? Our unique rocks, mineral and geodes are a great addition to any collection. From beautiful specimens to samples with neat physical properties we have something for everyone on your list.

If you need a recommendation, just email us and our staff geologist will gladly help you!

This week, save 10% off of your entire order with coupon code ROCK10. Just enter the coupon code when you checkout! Remember to sign up for our newsletter to receive additional holiday special offers!

Let’s Learn about Crystal Geometry

tracyb — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:31:25 +0000

Teach your children about Crystal Geometry with this cool kit. Your Crystal Geometry kit comes complete with six cool mineral samples: muscovite, fluorite, calcite, citrine, pyrite and agate geode.

Also included in the kit is a hand magnifier and a CD with 30 pages of mineral information, sample identification activities, puzzles, coloring pages, and experiments. Adult supervision is required for some of the experiments.

Other fun activities on the CD include creating your own adventure story, making a personal geologist’s field notebook and your very own rock collection box!

The CD requires free Adobe Reader 9.0 which can be downloaded at www.adobe.com. This software is easy to download and use so please use version 9.0 which makes the CD very fun to view! The Mini CD in the kit may not play in slot drives without an adapter. Consult computer manufacturer’s recommendations before inserting the mini CD into a slot drive.