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Curated OER

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.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Michigan's Lumbering history: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore lumbering in Michigan.  For this lumbering lesson, 4th graders examine the life of a modern day lumberjack and how technology can interfere with natural ecology.  Students create a list of products from...
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Curated OER

From Where Does Coal Come?

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explain the sources of coal.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Case Closed... Or Confusing?- a Quick Guide To the Three Cases

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students read about grammar rules and then complete questions. Grammar rules covered are possessive, nominative, and objective case, linking verbs. invisible verbs, and pronoun use. This is an advanced grammar...
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Curated OER

Arkansas Geography/History Relief Map

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders research a number of sources including the Internet to find information about the regions of Arkansas while locating sites of national historic interest. They located sites on maps while working at assigned websites. They...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The CopyCat Game 1

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts worksheet, students read a sentence, then choose an answer which agrees with the first sentence. Example: I drive a Honda. (So do I.) There are 10 examples to do on the page.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Trick or Fruit

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this health and diet worksheet, students circle all of the healthy snack choices from those given in a list on the page. They write a list of other good snacks on blank lines on the page. This worksheet is associated with the Junie...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mmm, Mmm, Mmm

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners identify the grapheme and phoneme for M. They practice writing the letter M and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /m/. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
Activity
Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Cookie Mining

For Students 3rd - 8th
An activity where students simulate the process of extracting coal from the ground using chocolate chip cookies. They then calculate the costs involved to determine whether coal mining is profitable.
Interactive
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Cookie Mining

For Students 9th - 10th
In this mining simulation, students 'purchase' chocolate chip cookies which represent their 'mining property.' They must also buy mining equipment (i.e., toothpicks and paper clips). They 'mine' chocolate chips from their cookies while...
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Other

Women in Mining: Cookie Mining, Rebaked [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This activity introduces students to the economics of mining. This is accomplished through the player buying their "property", purchasing the "mining equipment", paying for the "mining operation" and finally paying for the "reclamation"....
Activity
Other

Women in Mining: Asphalt Cookies [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This activity introduces students to the civil engineering area of paving and road construction. Includes links to additional resources, a vocabulary list, background information, and images.

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