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Cookie Mining

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students simulate coal mining with chocolate chip cookies and toothpicks. They investigate the costs associated with mining coal.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
To understand the impact coal mining has on the environment, pupils will extract chocolate chips from a cookie. Imagine the cookie is the environment and the chips are the coal. Instruct them to mine as many chips as they can, then have...
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Cookie Mining

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Knock a chip off the cookie. Learners purchase a property to mine and mining tools. Pupils use their tools to mine chocolate chips out of a cookie for 5 minutes and return cookie fragments to its original site. After the time is over,...
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore nonrenewable energy resources. In this coal lesson, students investigate how coal is formed and how it is used as a source of energy. Students mine for "coal" using toothpicks and chocolate chip cookies.
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Cookie Mining

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate mining and economics. In this mining lesson, students play a game in which they purchase property, mine the property, and pay for reclamation.  Students earn money for each ore mined. 
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student pretends to be a research scientist for a mining company. They work in a laboratory that investigates methods of getting useful minerals from rocks. They complete experiment using chocolate chip cookies.
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Cookie Mining

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study what mining is and the environmental of mining is. They examine what ore is, complete a mining exercise, and look at environmental law as it relates to mining.
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Mining in Texas

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this mining and nonrenewable resources worksheet, young scholars read about mining in Texas and simulate the extraction of nonrenewable minerals. They use cookies and their components to represent the minerals they will mine and they...
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Mining and Land Reclamation - A Classroom Simulation

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students simulate mining mineral resources using cookies. In this earth science lesson, students analyze the cost and profits in mining. They write a lab report about the activity.
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Mining an Ore

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate how to determine the percent composition of a mineral in an ore. In this mining an ore lesson plan, students use chocolate chips cookies to represent an ore and they remove precious minerals (the chocolate chips)...
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Mining Reclamation and Cookies

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders are introduced to the process of mining. In groups, they use the internet to research the effect of mining on the environment. They work together to create their own make believe mining company and discover the process of...
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Mining for Natural Resources

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discover that mining for nonrenewable natural resources has a dramatic effect on our environment. They gain an understanding of the processes involved in harvesting a natural resource and the impact it has on the earth.
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Mining for Mmm-minerals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore minerals and examine environmental impact of mining through simulation.
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Environment" The Mining Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the world of mining and explain its importance in daily life. After describing how companies search for mineral deposits, they examine the environmental consequences of mining as well as the positive aspects. The...
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Metamorphic Magic!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore the steps involved in the formation of metamorphic rock as they prepare a cookie receipe. As part of the process, sedimentary rocks are created and changed through heat to a metamorphic cookie.
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Fossil Fuels: Facing the Issues

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore energy by researching fuel usage on Earth. In this fossil fuel instructional activity, students define fossil fuels, the energy created by burning them, and the impact on the environment when using them. Students conduct...
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Flotation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how one of the ways the mining companies extract coal is through the flotation method where air bubbles float coal particles to the top of a solution. The coal is scooped off and separated. They participate in the...
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Fossil Fuels

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the use of fossil fuels and relate it to effects on the environment.
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Earthquake!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars study causes, probability and location of earthquakes. They complete a number of activities and look at web pages to examine the characteristics of earthquakes.
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Minerals of the Earth

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn and practice identifying Earth's minerals and their properties. Working in small groups, they evaluate minerals. This is a well-described lesson, which students enjoy.
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Michigan's Lumbering history: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore lumbering in Michigan.  For this lumbering instructional activity, 4th graders examine the life of a modern day lumberjack and how technology can interfere with natural ecology.  Students create a list of products...
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From Where Does Coal Come?

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Young scholars explain the sources of coal.
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Coal: More Than Meets the Eye!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students participate in a hands-on simulation to help them explain that coal resources are deposited unevenly between the earth's surface and under the ground.

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