The following packets of information are included here for your use. They are found on the Internet at the Mineral Information Institute webpage. http://www.mii.org/teacherhelpers.php Please check their site often for materials specifically created for teachers. Atlantic Union Conference Teacher Bulletin www.teacherbulletin.org Page 1 of 1 Finding your way around www.mii.orgwww.mii.org Where almost everything we have is FREEFREE for teachers For Teachers FREE downloads & printables. Includes all student pages, graphics, activity guides, and backgrounders. Plus samples. Get posters if you want them. Every American Born Will Need . 1.64 million lbs. For Students 32,061 lbs 997 lbs . Stone, Sand, & Gravel . 21,476 lbs. Salt . Zinc • Mineral photos, many from 1,841 lbs Clays 81,585 gallons the Smithsonian Institute. Copper Petroleum 68,110 lbs 2.196 Troy oz. • Mineral descriptions and Cem . information. Gold ent . etals • Minerals in your state, with maps. 586,218 lbs +57,448 lbs Coal inerals & M . All FREE to help your students. lbs 5.9 millionOther cu. M ft. of 0 5,599 lbs . 23,70 45,176 lbs. Aluminum . 1,074 lbs natur Phosphate Lead Iron Ore al gas About MII 3.7 million pounds of minerals, metals, and fuels in a lifetime © 2001 Mineral Information Institute Golden, Colorado Who we are. What other teachers say about us. Global Science A great high school textbook. BecomeBecome Mining & the Environment aa membermember Things you probably never knew about the impact of mining on the land. GOLD Panning in your classroom Truly, one of the greatest classroom experiences. Become a member. Ever. Help support our work to keep materials FREE for teachers. The Benefits of Membership in MII We always try to provide our materials free to By becoming a member of MII you will help us teachers who ask to receive them. But someone prove to our contributors that you value the has to provide the money to pay for them. That materials we provide. Sometimes, we might someone is our contributors. even need you to talk directly with them. Please help. Mineral Information Institute Idea Starters to find out about Natural Resources We Use A few quick and easy examples to help introduce and develop an appreciation for our natural Page 3 resources and how we use them. 47 different topics (all with website references) to learn how we use our mineral Page 4 - 6 resources and where they come from. A list of the major minerals and metals and the states where they are produced. Plot them on a map and find out Page 7 how common some minerals are . and aren’t. The opposite of Page 7— a list of States and the minerals they produce. Page 8 Find out who has minerals and who doesn’t. There are 35 different minerals and metals in every computer. Order a book from Amazon.com, you burn about half a pound Page 9 of coal that produced the electricity to make it all happen. An energy extravaganza. Where your electricity comes from. How much does energy really cost. Who uses energy. Page 10 - 15 Who produces the energy we use. Mankind has created some ingenious things and all of them use minerals. Is Page 16 - 17 there a limit to man’s ingenuity? Things that come from Trees. You’ll be surprised when you discover how many pounds Page 18 (and trees) are used to make chocolate. We know beef comes from a cow but look at all the other ways we use that cow, like marshmallows and shampoo, Page 19 and clothes and tires and to treat diabetes and allergies. Experience the Gold Rush in your classroom. History really comes alive when gold is involved. Watch what Page 20 happens when your students get GOLD FEVER. Teachers always have permission to copy MII materials for their classroom use. www.mii.org Mineral Information Institute Page 2 Idea Starters to find out about Natural Resources We Use But where does that Everything is Made of Something something come from? Scientists describe it in the Law of Conservation of Matter: Matter can be neither created nor destroyed, though it can be rearranged. Science and human ingenuity have created some marvelous things. As a result, many people have lost track of where things come from because the form in which they buy and use those “things” is often dramatically changed from the original materials that created them. That’s one of the main uses for these materials. to help people reconnect to the natural resources that provide Everything We Have. Have your students . Find out where their last meal came from. Find the Find all the natural resources it takes to produce a states/provinces that produced all of the parts of loaf of bread. First, you need to identify all the their breakfast, lunch or dinner. Make it a little steps of production. (Planting, fertilizing and harder by allowing them to use each state only harvesting the wheat, transportation of it to a once. Help is available at www.usda.gov. processing plant, refrigeration, shipping flour to or bakery, baking, packaging, marketing and sales.) Plan a holiday menu, with all the trimmings. List You can skip a few of these steps if you bake the those states that produced the foods eaten at bread at home, but even then, you will use a lot of Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Passover, resources in the cooking utensils, oven, and July 4th, Easter, etc. (www.usda.gov). energy. Let your students get wild and see who can create the longest list of natural resources Find out which regions helped them get dressed this necessary to get a slice of bread. Help is available morning. Which states/provinces created the at www.usda.gov, www.fb.com, and www.mii.org. cotton, wool, leather, rubber, plastic, metals, and synthetic fibers (nylon, rayon, acrylic, polyester, Pick two regions or provinces, the one you live in etc.) that were used to make their clothes. and the other one far away. What would you trade or or barter with the other region to enhance your Look at one thing, anything, like tennis shoes. life? They are usually made of a half dozen different minerals and “grown” materials. A little help at Design a travel brochure of your state or region. www.mii.org/pdfs/clothing.pdf The brochure should include a description of the Note: pdf files download to your computer and topography, climate, special places of interest, the should automatically open in Acrobat Reader. top agricultural commodities, mining sites, and a map that shows the location of the main rivers, Create a collage of products made from the metals, cities, and highways in the region. minerals, and agricultural resources from your region. Food, Clothing, Shelter ALL Come from Our Natural Resources Discover who you are dependent upon for your life-style www.mii.org Mineral Information Institute Page 3 Idea Starters to find out about Natural Resources We Use Language Arts, Social Studies, & Science Connections This same information, with links, is available at www.mii.org/lessons.html Pick a Topic and expand it ANY FILE WITH PDF IN ADDRESS IS A DIRECT DOWNLOAD, NOT A VIEW ON SCREEN UNLESS YOU HAVE PROGRAMMED A Bright Smile from Toothpaste and YOUR COMPUTER TO DO SO. Minerals: A listing of the various minerals and metals used in toothpaste, and the role each of them plays in keeping your teeth The History of Gold Is the History of bright and healthy. the World: Gold — it conquered www.mii.org/toothpaste.html nations and settled the world. It has more history than perhaps any other Find Out What’s Beyond the Looking natural resource. www.mii.org/ Glass: The magic of at least six different goldhist.html minerals, in the right combination, make glass. It’s been around for nearly 5,000 years How Many Minerals & Metals Does It and today we can’t live without it. Take to Make A Light Bulb? With so www.mii.org/glass.html much science and technology behind something so common, it’s a wonder it What’s Really in was ever invented. Paper Besides Wood? More www.mii.org/lightbulb.html than 250 million tons are produced every year, but paper can’t exist Mineralized Map of Alaska: without the special feature that Major mineralization is minerals provide. known to occur in Alaska. www.mii.org/paper.html www.mii.org/pdfs/ alaskamap.pdf Money, Made of Metal and Promises: One of the greatest Is It Animal, Vegetable, or inventions of all time. Mineral? Take your pick from the www.mii.org/money.html items on these two pages. It’s not as easy as you think. www.mii.org/pdfs/anminveg.pdf Eat Your Broccoli, It Contains Selenium - The Brain Food: Health and nutrition are A Classroom Full of Resources: 4 pages. Includes dependent upon minerals. guide and suggested Without them, life is not activities for students to possible. realize everything in the www.mii.org/nutrition.html school and home is made of resources. Includes What’s In A Pencil classroom identification Besides Wood: and coloring page. Two- Natural resources from a half dozen states and at least page list and description of two countries are necessary to make something as how mineral resources are simple as a wood pencil. How was it ever invented? used throughout their www.mii.org/pencil.html home. www.mii.org/pdfs/classroom.pdf Find Out Where the Sidewalk Clothing Matters, Let’s Begins: Almost anybody can Learn About Clothes: 2 build a sidewalk but can your pages.