Earth Sciences
Montana State University-Bozeman
A "Jigsaw" Activity for Teaching about Uranium Mining on the Navajo Nation part of Cutting Edge:Public Policy:Activities
This activity takes an Earth system approach to teach about uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, and can be modified to teach a variety of case studies.
A "Role-play" Activity for Teaching about Uranium Mining on the Navajo Nation part of Cutting Edge:Public Policy:Activities
This activity uses an Earth system approach and role playing to teach students about uranium mining on the Navajo Nation. Students first use a website to find information for their assigned roles, and then they present information to the class.
Impacts of Resource Development on Native American Lands part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands
What is this collection? This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. This collection contains an assortment of digital resources relevant ...
Crow part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Funding was provided in part by the Montana Office of Public Instruction . Seal from the ...
Fort Belknap part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Seal of the Fort Belknap Nation. Details The Zortman Landusky gold and silver mine is located ...
Navajo Nation part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Great Seal of the Navajo Nation. Details While the Navajo were struggling economically during ...
Pribilof Islands part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Jeanette Wolak and Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands : A struggle for survival in 'the ...
Tips on Teaching Native Americans part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Anna Aloysious of Cove, Arizona. Details Despite the fact that most Native cultures have a ...
Study Guide part of Integrating Research and Education:Advances in Paleontology
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. The purpose of this study guide is to help teachers prepare a unit using the information ...
Questions for Further Exploration part of Integrating Research and Education:Advances in Paleontology
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Open-ended questions allow students to explore scientifically significant questions while ...
Jigsaw Activity part of Integrating Research and Education:Advances in Paleontology
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Introduction: Paleontology is an excellent hook for educators to use to teach science, as we ...
Study Guide part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. The purpose of this study guide is to help teachers prepare a unit using the information ...
Glossary part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. amphibolite: A crystalloblastic rock consisting mainly of amphibole and plagioclase with ...
Questions for Further Exploration part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Open-ended questions allow students to explore scientifically significant questions while ...
Jigsaw Activity part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Introduction: Resource development has in the past, and continues to affect Native American ...
Role Play Activity part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Introduction: Methane (natural gas), while frequently developed with petroleum, also occurs ...
Jigsaw Activity part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Introduction: Methane (natural gas), while frequently developed with petroleum, also occurs ...
Study Guide part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Funding was provided in part by the Montana Office of Public Instruction. The purpose of this ...
Questions for Further Exploration part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Open-ended questions allow students to explore scientifically significant questions while ...
Cultural Heritage part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Funding was provided in part by the Montana Office of Public Instruction . Pauline Small on ...
Exploration and Development part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Funding was provided in part by the Montana Office of Public Instruction . Map of US Coalbed ...
Coalbed Methane part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Linda Lennon and Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Funding was provided in part by the Montana Office of Public Instruction . ...
Climate and Biota part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Funding was provided in part by the Montana Office of Public Instruction. Mule deer in ...
Geology and Physiography part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Funding was provided in part by the Montana Office of Public Instruction . Map of Montana ...
Hydrology part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk and Linda Lennon as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Funding was provided in part by the Montana Office of Public Instruction . ...
Policy part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Funding was provided in part by the Montana Office of Public Instruction . Eight Crow ...
Impacts part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Crow
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Funding was provided in part by the Montana Office of Public Instruction . On the surface, ...
Role Play Activity part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Jeanette Wolak and Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Introduction: Scenario 1: Extension of No-Fishing Zone around the ...
Role Play Activity part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Introduction: As the price of oil exceeds $70/barrel, nuclear energy is once again becoming a ...
Jigsaw Activity part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Introduction: As the price of oil exceeds $70/barrel, nuclear energy is once again becoming a ...
Role Play Activity part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Introduction: Gold is one of the most economically important metals produced. As of 1991, ...
Jigsaw Activity part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Introduction: Gold is one of the most economically important metals produced. As of 1991, ...
Study Guide part of Integrating Research and Education:Yellowstone
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. The purpose of this study guide is to help teachers prepare a unit using the information ...
Hydrology part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Surface Water Drainage, Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Details The Zortman Landusky gold ...
Questions for Further Exploration part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Open-ended questions allow students to explore scientifically significant questions while ...
Human Health Impacts part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Assiniboine Mother and Child. Details The human health effects due to cyanide leach gold ...
Geology part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Triassic, Jurassic, and Tertiary rocks exposed along the western flank of the Lukachukai ...
Geology and Physiography part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Figure 1: Cross Section of Fort Belknap Reservation. Details Located at approximately 48 ...
Cultural Heritage part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. The Navajo reservation, created in 1868, is by far the largest reservation in the United ...
Exploration and Development part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Navajo miners near Cove, Arizona in 1952. Details Escalation of the cold war between the ...
Climate and Biota part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Tsé bit'a'í ("Rock with Wings") or Ship Rock, a 550-m exhumed ...
Policy part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Floyd Frank of Oakspring, Arizona. Details Once the dangers of uranium mining gradually ...
Environmental Impacts part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Former miner Joe Ray Harvey at an abandoned uranium mine near Cove, Arizona. Details Despite ...
Human Health Impacts part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Mary Frank of the Navajo Nation. Details Radioactive pollution is a serious threat to the ...
Uranium Deposits part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Figure 1: Geologic setting of important types of uranium deposits. Note that each type of ...
Hydrology part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Waterfall in the Grand Falls of the Little Colorado River, which flow over Quaternary lavas ...
Physiography part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Dook'o'oosliid (San Francisco Peaks), a stratovolcano sacred to the Dine and other Southwest ...
Study Guide part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. The purpose of this study guide is to help teachers prepare a unit using the information ...
Study Guide part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. The purpose of this study guide is to help teachers prepare a unit using the information ...
Climate and Biota part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. The total amount of annual precipitation on the Fort Belknap Nation varies from 9 to 10 ...
Gold Deposits part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Figure 1: Schematic illustration of geologic environments in which hydrothermal gold deposits ...
Cultural Heritage part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Established in 1869, the Fort Belknap Reservation is the home to two distinct Northern ...
Policy part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Assiniboine Chief. Details Pegasus Gold operated the Zortman-Landusky gold mine complex just ...
Environmental Impacts part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Ruby Gulch flowing through Zortman, MT. Details The Zortman-Landusky gold mine is a case ...
Exploration and Development part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Fort Belknap
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Gold Bug Pit. Details Gold was first discovered near the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in ...
Questions for Further Exploration part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Open-ended questions allow students to explore scientifically significant questions while ...
Study Guide part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. The purpose of this study guide is to help teachers prepare a unit using the information ...
Cultural Heritage part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Jeanette Wolak and Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Aleut dancers in traditional ceremonial dress. Details The Aleuts of ...
Jigsaw Activity part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Introduction: The populations of northern fur seals and other marine mammals on the Pribilof ...
Geology and Physiography part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Jeanette Wolak and Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. St. George Island Village, Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Details The Pribilof ...
What's Next part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Navajo Nation
This page was written by Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Abandoned entrance in a coal bed on the Kaiparowits Plateau. Details Uranium Mining On April ...
Flora and Fauna part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Jeanette Wolak and Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Red-crested cormorants and horned puffins, Pribilof Islands, AK. Details ...
Climate part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Jeanette Wolak and Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Black Bluffs on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Details The Pribilof Islands, ...
Hydrology part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Jeanette Wolak and Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Basalt cliffs at Garden Cove, St. George Island, AK. Details The Pribilof ...
Policy part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Jeanette Wolak and Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Fisherman with Halibut on St. George Island, Pribilof Islands, AK. Details ...
Beringia part of Integrating Research and Education:Impacts on Native Lands:Pribilof Islands
This page was written by Jeanette Wolak and Erin Klauk as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education. Beringia is named for the Danish explorer, Vitus Bering, and is also ...
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