Technology Lesson

I am going to teach a lesson about the difference between rocks and minerals. Rocks are not the most exciting thing in the world and teaching science for many students can be quite boring, so maybe if some type of technology is involved students will enjoy it more and be more enthusastic about learning the material. I would want to use the flickr slide show or the digital story programs we have used. I know I have rock and mineral samples at home that students can look at and feel, but some of them are very small and not the 'coolest looking'. Maybe if I show pictures on a slide show of some really interesting rocks and minerals that the students will be interested in finding out more about them. Some misconceptions students have about rocks and minerals is that they are the same thing. When someone picks up a piece of quartz that it is a rock because it looks like one, when the truth is it's a mineral because it's made up of all the same material, while a rock is made up of different types of materials.