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When you're ready to really rock out, the American Museum of Natural History's kids Web site has loads of practical information about rocks, including a picture quiz where you're challenged to find all the rocks in a normal kitchen (hint - there are a lot of them): www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/kids

The BBC's educational section on the rock cycle includes experiments that kids can do at home to understand how rocks form, erode, move, and evolve. Also includes some tasty rock-related baking. www.bbc.co.uk/education/rocks

The US Department of Agriculture's Web site is aimed toward younger kids and features a cartoon worm who explains the importance of soil and how it helps us eat, breath and live healthy lives (a worm ought to know): www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/education/squirm/skworm.html

The most comprehensive learning tool for kids about rocks on the Web is stationed at www.rocksforkids.com

The South Street Seaport has exhibits and education programs on New York urban archaeology, involving unearthing the past in the dirt and rock beneath our feet: www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org

ROCK G A M E S
 
ROCK F A C T S !

The earth under your feet is always moving.

The oldest bedrock under New York is more than a billion years old.

The rocky crust of our planet is twenty miles thick.

The tiny bits that make up clay are the smallest kind of rock.

Many fault line, or fractures in the Earth, crisscross New York City.