Teachers of students ranging from grades 4 through 7 from the Sudbury area attended a Mining Matters workshop on April 30 and May 1, to learn how to deliver Earth Science based activities and to use the materials provided in their lessons. At the same time, their students enjoyed a free student workshops and visited Dynamic Earth for special MMTS programming.

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Mining Matters Teachers’
Workshop
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Dynamic Earth, Sudbury, ON
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Overview of the session
• Curriculum connections
• Earthly treasures
– Minerals versus rocks
– Scientific testing and identification of minerals
– What Ontario mines
• Recycling rocks
– Classification and identification of rocks
• Rocks as clocks
– Fossils of Ontario

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Curriculum Connections
All of the Fundamental Concepts can be
addressed through Earth science.
Strand, Understanding Earth & Space Systems
Topics in science:
• Grade 4
– Rocks and minerals
• Grade 7
– Heat in the environment

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Competency Continuum
• Where do you stand?
 Beginning
Exploring
Emerging
 Competent
Proficient

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Earthly Treasures
Which treasure is a rock and which is a mineral?

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become
Elements to Rocks
Minerals are the building blocks of rocks.
Chemical
Elements
Minerals
Rocks
bond to become

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Activity: Scientific Testing &
Identification of Minerals
• After the overview of the tests, use
equipment package to make observations
of the minerals
• Refer to the properties of minerals chart to
match each sample to a mineral name
• Place each sample in the correct place on
the Mineral Challenge place mat

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Operating mines in Ontario

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Recycling Rocks
• The rock cycle has
been recycling
rock for billons of
years; using the
same materials to
make and remake
rocks in an endless
cycle.

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The Three Rock Groups
IGNEOUS
Intrusive
• solidifies within the earth
• slow cooling means
mineral grains have time to
grow
• coarse grain
Extrusive
• solidifies near or on the
surface
• rapid cooling means
minerals have only short
time to form
• fine grain
SEDIMENTARY
Clastic
• made up of pieces (clasts)
of pre-existing
• particle size from
microscopic clay to huge
boulders
Chemical
• formed by chemical
precipitation
Biological
• may from accumulated
carbon-rich plant material
or from deposits of animal
shells
METAMORPHIC
Foliated
•forms when pressure
squeezes the fat or elongate
minerals within a rock so
they become aligned
• develop platy sheet -like
structure
Non-foliated
•no matter how much
pressure is applied, grains
will not align
• contact metamorphism,
magma intrudes into pre-
existing rock; baked by heat

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Activity: Rock Classification

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Rocks as clocks
• Reflecting on what you have learned thus far,
which rock type would most likely contain
fossil evidence?
Transport Sedimentation
New rock
formation
FossilizationPreservationDead OrganismLife in the past

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Getting your bearings
• Fossils through time:
– Geologist record the
history of the Earth on a
timescale that is unfamiliar
to your students
Eons, eras, periods,
epochs … oh my!

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Fossils of Ontario
• What is the fossil record?
• How are fossils formed and how do scientist
find and identify fossils?
• What can a collection of fossils tell us about
Ontario’s past?
• Can you think of an economically important
reason to study geology?
• Why are sites like Manitouiln Island Nature
Reserve of great importance to researchers,
the public, etc.

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Activity: Mono-, di-, trilobite
• Blank paper
• Crayons (3 colours)
– Head
– Thorax
– Tail
• Trilobite fossil samples
• Attempt to create a complete representation
of a trilobite by using all the samples in
classroom

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Activity: What time is it?
Fossil Challenge
• Without referring to the ON Fossil guide place
mat, try to place the sample fossils of Ontario,
order from oldest (left) to youngest (right)

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Resources for you
• Mining Matters
• Field trip subsidy and continuing Earth
science teacher support
• Ontario Mining Association
• Summer, Teacher ‘s Mining Tour
• Geological Survey of Canada
• Popular Geoscience Fact Sheets
• EdGeo & CGEN
• Bringing Earth Science to Life teacher
resouces

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Reflections
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Thank you.
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