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Hi, Bob– Welcome to the forum! Being in NJ, maybe you already know this, but the zinc mines of Franklin and Ogdensburg, near the northern tip of NJ, and the numerous sites in the Franklin marble formation, make fluorescent minerals a natural subject for schools there. I see a lot of youngsters get captivated by fluorescent minerals where other exhibits might not move them. Then to answer the questions that arise as to how they get that way, one might start discussing how the Franklin orebody formed. Unfortunately, there seems no pat answer for those zinc mines, there being several theories as to how they formed. I imagine the Franklin marble is a straightforward subject for such a discussion. A field trip to the Sterling Hill Mine in Ogdensburg, which is now open as a museum, might be a good addition to the curriculum. –Doug