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Minerals and Cookie Mining.

 

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Cookie Mining: Grades 3-8

Concept:

Coal deposits, like many natural resources, are unevenly distributed throughout the world.
Mining, like other methods used to extract natural resources, affect the environment to varying degrees.
Many factors need to be considered when making decisions regarding the wise use of natural resources.

Objective:

• Recognize that use decisions are complex.
• Learn that mining has environmental considerations that need to be addressed.

Standards:

•ENERGY

Understand energy, its transformations, and interactions with matter

Identify forms of various types of energy and their effects on matter.

Describe examples of energy transfer.

•THE DYNAMIC EARTH

Understand the properties and limited availability of the materials, which make up the Earth.

Identify properties and uses of Earth materials.

Recognize that Earth materials are used in different ways based on differences in their physical and chemical properties.

• http://www.earthsciweek.org/classroom-activities/cookie-mining 
• http://teachcoal.org/lesson-plan-cookie-mining 
• http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org/institute/lesson-clearinghouse/131-Chocolate-Chip-Cookie-Mining.html 
• http://eweb.4j.lane.edu/article.php?-recid=69