Minerals
4/4 B-BAT: explain the importance of minerals in their own words Do Now! What is a soda can made of? What about jewelry?
What do those images have in common? Write it down in your notebook
What do those images have in common? Write it down in your notebook
Mineral - A combination of two or more elements. A naturally occurring, inorganic solid, with definite chemical composition and crystalline structure
Inorganic - Not consisting of or deriving from living matter
Chemical composition - Chemical composition refers to the arrangement, type, and ratio of atoms in molecules of chemical substances
Crystalline structure - In mineralogy and crystallography, a crystal structure is a unique arrangement of atoms, ions or molecules in a crystalline liquid or solid. It describes a highly ordered structure.
There are 3800 known minerals You MUST know all of them
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Practically every manufactured product contains materials obtained from minerals
Mineral Resources Mineral resources are useful minerals available commercially Resources include already identified deposits from which minerals can be extracted profitably, called reserves
The term ore is used to denote those useful metallic minerals that can be mined at a profit This term can also be applied to non metallic minerals that have common usage such as fluorite and sulfur
Save the Last Word for Me Roles: Timekeeper/facilitator The process is designed to build on each other’s thinking, and not to enter into a dialogue Groups of 4 Choose a timekeeper (who also participates) Each participant silently identifies what s/he considers to be the most significant idea addressed in the article, and writes down that passage
Save the Last Word for Me The three participants each have 1 minute to respond to the passage – saying what it makes them think about, what questions it raises for them, etc The first participant then has 3 minutes to state why s/he chose that part of the article and to respond to – or build on – what s/he heard from his/her colleagues The same pattern is followed until all four members of the group have has a chance to be the presenter and to have “the last word”
Thumbs Up/Down The timekeeper/facilitator participates in the activity You will write down what speaks to you the most When someone is speaking you can jump in and interrupt to say your piece