Event

Science Odyssey - Rocks with the Museum at Home

Sunday, May 9, 2021 10:00to11:00
Redpath Museum 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA
Price: 
FREE zoom presentation.

As part of ScienceOdyssey, the Redpath Museum presents a series of 4 special virtual workshop animated by students from SMOrES.

See how rocks ….rock!. Rocks are all around us, we use them to make buildings and roads, we even use parts of them in our cars and computers. But not all rocks are the same. We fill find out how geologists identify rocks and minerals so bring along your favorite rock and we will examine and identify it together.

Optional materials: a rock, stone or mineral you have at home, a magnifying glass, a magnet.

Registration for this event is now closed. The link for the event will be forwarded to participants on Friday May 7, around noon.

In English only.

Suitable for a family audience.

Land Acknowledgement

McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

The Redpath Museum's director EDI statement.

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