The Santa Clara Valley Gem and Mineral Society organizes Gem, Mineral and Jewelry show once a year. The event is hosted for 3 days including the weekends. "A" has interest in gems and there were some kids activities, so I decided to take her for
the event.
There was a designated kids area at the exhibition and kids were given questionnaire. They had to read the information displayed on the project boards in order to answer them. There were various project boards displaying information on rock cycle, types of rocks, fossils, minerals, rock formations in cave, volcanoes, earthquake etc.
After the kids completed this activity they were each given a bag containing 2 samples of each of the rock types: igneous,metamorphic and sedimentary. The kids area also had a very good collection of different rocks. There were some demonstartions to find out which type of rocks float, erosion, parts of a volcano, stalactite formation etc.
After exploring the kids area went to see more of the rocks and gems and were awe-struck at the fine collection of gems and various minerals.
The kids had fun selecting their geodes, watching how beads are made and finished off with panning for gold We got to see a gold nugget which was actually found by someone while panning!
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