Turn Mineral Properties and Identification into an adventure with this comic-style science reader. Illustrated pages, characters and short captions explain the science, with review activities built in.

Grades 4–6Science15 pagesPDF

📌 What’s Included

• 15 printable pages
• Comic-style mineral investigation reader
• Pages on color, luster, streak, Mohs hardness, cleavage, fracture and density
• Mineral identification flowchart
• Mystery Mineral Lab data table and claim-evidence-reasoning activity
• Four-question review and exit ticket
• Key science vocabulary on every page
• Full-color PDF

🎯 Skills Covered

• Identify mineral properties such as color, streak, luster and hardness
• Use properties to identify minerals
• Read a science story that explains mineral identification

🎓 Grade & Standards

• Grades 4–6 Science

👩‍🏫 Ways to Use It

• Read-aloud: read the story together as a class
• Independent reading: students read and complete the activities
• Science centers: a reading station for the unit
• Review: use the review questions to check understanding

⭐ Why Teachers Love It

• No prep: print and go
• A story format that makes science reading fun