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, scholars calculate the total cost of the mining process taking into account revenue added for selling the chips.

Concepts

mining, coal mining, profits

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Research strip mining and the reclamation process
• Determine the volume or mass of chips compared to that of the cookie

Classroom Considerations

• Uses accounting principles to determine profit

Pros

• Includes a formatted worksheet for class members use to keep track of expenditures
• Provides a pricing structure for land, tools, operational expenses and revenue

Cons

• Uses the term profit to mean revenue making it sound like expenses have already been accounted for