Minerals - An Introduction - Minerals do NOT have to be boring! This resource brings the definition of a mineral from blah to EXCITING. Introduce minerals by having students predict from a list which items are vs are not minerals. Students then take notes from a 20-slide (editable) PPT that goes through each part of the definition of a mineral- what it IS and what it ISN'T, including examples of everything! After notes, students re-visit their predictions of what is a mineral, and now that