A Golden Opportunity for Science
http://www.blm.gov/education/going_4_the_gold/gold_poster.htmlCarl Barna, Richard Brook, Shelly Fischman, Shelley Smith, Mary Tisdale, Bureau of Land Management, Environmental Education and Volunteer Programs, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Land Management
This site uses activities about gold to teach science, centering on the following information: how the pursuit of gold shaped society; metaphors, myths, lores and legends about gold; the mineral properties of gold; the two types of origins of gold (lode deposits and placer deposits); mining and recovery of gold; and the technology of heap leaching. There is also a debate between different interest groups about a small gold-mining town for students to consider, mention of a few historic mining sites and ghost towns for field trips, a map of U.S. regions that have produced gold, and a poster to illustrate the gold mining process, such as exploration, extraction, milling, refining, transport, and the creation of mining boom towns.
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