CLASSROOM GUEST SPEAKER RESOURCES:
The world is full of people with great experiences to share. Invite individuals
to your classroom to share their knowledge and background with your students.
Encourage your students to come up with their own ideas for industry guests.
Here is a start:
- Student parent working
in mining, oil and gas, sand and gravel, or related industry
- Geologist
- Geology Teacher from local
High School, Community College, or University
- Spokesperson from local
Gem and Mineral Club
- Mining Historian
- Mining Engineer
- Safety Engineer
- Spokesperson from local
mining, oil and gas, sand and gravel company
- Spokesperson from local
environmental group like Friends of the Earth and Sierra Club
- Representative from company
providing supplies and equipment to the mineral resource industry
- Economist
- Spokesperson from Bureau
of Land Management or U.S. Forest Service to discuss multiple land
usage
SCHOOL
FIELD TRIP RESOURCES:
Classroom instruction is often enhanced when you can leave the classroom
and experience learning other ways. Here are some field trip ideas:
- Rock Quarry
- Geology Museum; Mineral
Museum
- History Museum
- Mining Operations
- Sand and Gravel Operation
- Recycling Plant
- Refinery
- Reclamation Site LOCAL,
STATE, AND PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES:
- Department of Environmental
Quality (DEQ)
- State Geological Survey
- State Geologist
- State Bureau of Land Management
Office
- State Mining Association
- Department of Mines/Mineral
Resources
- Mining Companies
- Mine Inspector's Offices
- Oil and/or Gas Companies
- Sand and Gravel Operations
- Consulting Geologists
- Equipment Suppliers to
Industry
- Recycling Companies
- Environmental Organizations
- Gem and Mineral Society
- Rock Club
- Trade/Supplier's Organization
PUBLICATIONS FOR TEACHERS:
Minerals: Foundations of Society
Earth Science Investigations - Grades 8 to 12
American Geological Institute
4220 King Street
Alexandra, VA 22302
(800) 336-4764 - for orders
(703) 379-2480 - for information
Earth Science Research Activities - Grades 8 to 12
Alpha Publishing Co.
1910 hidden Point Road
Annapolis, MD 21401
A Sedimentary Geologist’s Guide to Helping K–12 Earth Science
Teachers
SEPH
PO Box 4756
Tulsa, OK 74159
(918) 743-9765
VIDEOS:
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration Inc. sponsors a Foundation
for Public Information and Education, which provides VHS/videos that
educators may check out free of charge (except for paying the return
postage fee) for a maximum of two weeks. For a complete listing of SME's
videos you may write or call:
SME Foundation
PO Box 625002
8307 Shaffer Parkway
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 973-9550 FAX (303) 973-3845
sme@smenet.org
http://www.smenet.org
MAPS:
The United States Geological Survey has a variety of free maps, indexes
and catalogs available. They also have topographic maps and a wide
variety of thematic maps that can be ordered. (You may also contact your
own state's Geological Survey to obtain local maps.) Write or call this
address for more information.
USGS Map
Distribution
Box 25286, Building 810
Denver Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225
(303) 236-7477
ROCK
AND MINERAL SPECIMENS
- Small collections of
rock and mineral samples are available from many state geological
surveys, at little or no cost. Contact yours for more information.
Here are
some private sources for educational or exhibition minerals. There may
be others in your area also. Check local listings.
National Energy Foundation
4516 S 700 E, Suite 100
Salt Lake City, UT 84107
(801) 908-5800
(801) 908-5400 – FAX
http:www.nef1.org
info@nef1.org
Carolina Biological Supply Company
2700 York Road
Burlington, NC 27215
(800) 334-5551
http://www.carolina.com
D.J. Minerals
PO Box 761
Butte, MT 59703-0761
Forestry Suppliers
PO Box 8397
Jackson, MS 39284-8397
The Mineral Gallery
Amethyst Galleries, Inc.
6249 Balmoral Dr.
Dublin, OH 43017
http://mineral.galleries.com/default.htm
Miners Inc.
PO Box 1301
Riggins, ID 83549-1301
sales@minerox.com
http://www.minerox.com
Omni Resources
1004 S. Mebane Street
Burlington, NC 27216
(336) 227-8300
powell@omnimap.com
http://www.omnimap.com
Scott Resources
PO Box 2121
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc.
PO Box 92912
Rochester, NY 14692-9012
http://www.wardsci.com
BOOKS
for the CLASSROOM:
Crystals
Philip Carona
Crystal and Gem
R.F. Symes and R.R.
Harding
Knopf, 1991 (Eyewitness Books)
The Earth's Story
Gerald Ames
Knopf, 1988 (Eyewitness Books)
Everybody Needs a Rock
Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall
Aladdin, 1974
Golden Guide to Rocks and Minerals, A
Herbet S. Zim and Paul R. Shaffer
Guide to Minerals, Rocks, and Fossils, A
W.R. Hamilton, A.R. Woodley, and A.C. Bishop
How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World
Faith McNulty
I Can Be A Geologist
Paul Sipiera
Industrial Minerals: How They Are Found & Used
Robert Bates
Janice VanCleave's Rocks and Minerals
Spectacular Science Projects
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996
Let's Go Rock Collecting
Roma Gans and Holly Keller
Harper Collins, 1997 (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science - Stage 2)
The Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Scholastic, 1987
Metals
Robin Kerrod
Metals and Alloys
Kathryn Whyman
Metals and Minerals
Jacqueline Dineen
Minerals -- Foundations of Society, 3rd Edition
Ann P. Dorr and Alma Hale Paty
American Geological Institute
National
Audubon Society: First Field Guide Rocks and Minerals
Edward Ricciuti and Margaret W. Carruthers
Scholastic, 1998
Our Modern Stone Age
Robert Bates and Julia Jackson
Rock Collecting
Roma Gans and Holly Keller
Harper Trophy, 1984 (A Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Book)
Rock Quarry Book, The
Michael Kehoe
Rocks and Minerals
Paul E. Desautels
Rocks and Minerals
Chris Pellant
Dorling Kindersley Inc., 1992 (Eyewitness Books)
Rocks and Minerals
Reader's Digest Pathfinders
Reader's Digest Children’s Books, 1999
Rocks and
Minerals
R.F. Symes
Knopf, 1988 (Eyewitness Books)
Rocks and Their Stories
Carroll Lane Fenton and Mildred Adams
Rocks and What they Tell Us
Lester del Rey
Secrets in Stones
Rose Wyler and Gerald Ames
Understanding and Collecting Rocks and Fossils
Martyn Bramwell
Usborne, 1983
What Does A Geologist Do?
R.V. Fodor
What Is A Rock?
John Syrocki |
