1. Mining Presentation (Sedimentary Group) Read through the following slides carefully! *When you see a Stop and DISCUSS the question with your partner!

2. What do you think about this?

3. Reflections Quickly write a few thoughts about the cartoon on the previous slide…

4. What is Mining? http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/st ripm.htmhttp://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/st ripm.htm Write 2-3 steps of how miners prepare land to be mined: 1. 2. 3.

5. What materials are mined? Talk with your partner and make a list of what materials you think are mined! 1) 2) 3) 4)

6. In Illinois… http://www.msha.gov/KIDS/MINING.HTM What do we mine in Illinois? Pick another few states in the same Midwest region… Do you notice any similarities in what nearby states mine?

7. Mining Vocabulary Tic- Tac- Toe Vocabulary Work with your partner to look up or think of a definition for 3 words in a row, column of diagonal. GO TO NEXT PAGE

8. Choose 3 in a row to define! Prospecting:Open- Pit Mine:Tunneling: Gold Panning:Metallurgist:Surface Mining: Underground Mining:Mine Inspector:Precious Metals:

9. Mining & the Environment How can surface mining or underground mining harm Earth? – Read Examples: http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/global.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/global.htm

10. Mining Safety http://www.mine-explorer.co.uk/open-htm-white-paper.asp?id=1 (It’s very long, just skim through the main points for each!)

11. If you finish early… WORD FIND http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/minerals/games/search/index.html TRUE FALSE QUIZ http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/minerals/games/true-false/index.html GUESSING GAME http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/minerals/games/nuggets.html