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The Awful Eight Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The students list major air pollutants, what causes them, and their effects on people and the environment. Students list ways they can prevent or reduce the types of air pollution mentioned in the play.
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The Awful 8: The Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students become aware of the cause and effects of different air pollutants. They present a play about the different pollutants.
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Environment

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine the energy saving benefits of trees. They identify ways in which trees reduce air pollution. They also work together to solve problems related to pollution.
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Activism

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use a leading question in order to create context for the lesson. The use of media helps to engage students with the integration of technology. Students consider major problems of society.
Interactive
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ESL: Past Continuous or Simple Past?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this tense worksheet, students use a given verb and re-write sentences using its correct form: continuous or simple past. Links to additional resources are given.
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Southeast States

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the Southeast States. In this social studies lesson, 4th graders study agriculture in the Southeast region of the United States. Students read about the Southeast region and discuss with a partner what they learned.
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Lungs-Individual and Community Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research and discuss health issues related to lungs and breathing in this technology-based lesson for upper elementary classrooms. Emphasis is placed on internet research including the use of Google and the website brainpop.com.
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U.s. Mine Safety and Health Adm: Mine Safety and Health Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
As a regulatory agency, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) provides safety information to coal miners.
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American Coal Foundation: Lesson Plan: Transporting Coal

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using a variety of learning activities and related materials, students will discover where coal is mined and the different ways it is transported to power plants or steel mills where it is used. Students will then map out their own...
Handout
US Energy Information Administration

U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Coal

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Easy-to-understand information on mining and transporting coal, producing it, uses of coal, and coal and the environment.
Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Career Guide to Industries: Mining

For Students 9th - 10th
Bureau of Labor Statistics provides information on mining and geological engineering which includes the nature of the industry, working conditions, employment, outlook, and earnings.
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American Coal Foundation: Lesson Plan: History of Coal in the u.s.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn about the history of coal mining in the United States by examining a timeline of key dates. In this two-part lesson, they will do research to discover why the coal industry is important to the economy and what types...
eBook
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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: The Energy Report: Coal [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter 7 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It looks at coal, its history, its uses, its economic impact in Texas, consumption, mining, and the transportation of coal. The process of generating electricity from coal is...
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American Coal Foundation: Coal Energy Facts

For Students 3rd - 8th
Comprehensive overview of why coal is a major source of energy in the United States. Find out what coal is, what it is used for, how it is mined, where coal reserves are located, and how it is converted into electricity.
Activity
US Department of Energy

U.s. Department of Energy: Coal: Our Most Abundant Fuel

For Students 9th - 10th
The U.S. has enough coal to last for the next 200-300 years. So why are we not using more of it? This article describes the different types or "ranks" of coal, the history, and the problems with burning coal for energy.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Boomtimes: 20th Century Mining Mojave Desert

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore twentieth-century mining in the Mojave Desert.
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University of Kentucky

University of Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey: Coal Mining

For Students 9th - 10th
Easy-to-understand information and a colorful diagram on the underground and surface mining methods used for extracting coal.
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Cape Breton Miners' Museum: History of Mining

For Students 9th - 10th
The first coal mine was opened in Cape Breton in 1720. Read about the long history of coal mining there, mining techniques, how coal is formed, the industry's impact on immigration, coal miners' unionization, etc. There is a detailed...
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Minerals Ed

Coal and Metal Mining in Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of British Columbia that shows the locations of all the coal and metal mining operation in British Columbia in 2008. Each coal and mining operation is linked to a secondary web page that provides detailed information on the various...
Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Women Miners in English Coal Pits

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed essay, written in 1842, on women and girl miners' working conditions in Great Britain. Includes the personal accounts of two women miners.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: When Miners Strike: West Virginia Coal Mining Labor History

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore coal mining and labor in West Virginia.
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Other

Cape Breton Miners' Museum: Mine Explosion in New Waterford, 1917 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Sixty-five men and boys died in the 1917 mining disaster at New Waterford in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. This collection of first-hand accounts has several interviews, news articles and documentation from the subsequent inquest. Reading...
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Other

Economic History Services: The Us Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the coal industry in the United States across the entire nineteenth century. Halfway through the page there is information about the advent of unions to represent the coal miners doing such a dangerous job.
Activity
Other

World Coal Institute: Coal Mining

For Students 6th - 8th
Discusses methods used to mine for coal. Click on 'Coal Mining' section of WCI report 'The Coal Resource' at the bottom of the page for a PDF file that describes coal mining processes in more detail.

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