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Attention History, Science, and Social Studies Teachers: Late-breaking offer for Professional Development, Grades 3-12 at the Sterling Hill Institute of Geosciences NJ DOE Provider # 981, and an NJ SSI Specialty Site
All of our workshops are targeted at New Jersey State Standards and are designed to allow teachers to implement content material within their existing programs. Teachers will be given hands-on instruction and will take home with them materials that include numerous student activities and ideas for more effective, cross-curricular classroom instruction. In addition to the workshops listed below and described on the next page, our staff can visit your school for in-class presentations and activities, work with you on customized tours of the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, and help you with your curriculum needs. For more information please contact us at shmm@ptd.net. Schedule of Events: June 19, 2008: The Life of a Miner (3 hours, morning) Resource Use at the Personal Level - Your Role as a Member of Society (3 hours, afternoon) July 10, 2008: Historical Development of Franklin and Sterling Hill zinc mines (3 hours, morning) Fluorescent Materials in our Everyday Lives (3 hours, afternoon) July 16, 2008: Mining Technology, Past and Present (6 hours) Groundwater Basics (3 hours, morning) More information below.
Please complete registration form and send via e-mail to: Teresa Crerand Professional Development Administrator 570-686-7611
Registration Mailing Address: Name: ___________________________________________________ Grade & Subject you teach: ___________________________________ Phone #: ______________________________ School: _______________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________ E-mail: _______________________________________________________
NJ DOE Provider # 981
Earth Science for Educators All of the workshops listed below will be held at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, 30 Plant St., Ogdensburg, NJ 07439. Morning workshops begin at 9 AM; afternoon workshops begin at 12:30 PM. Attendees should bring their own lunch, but we have a snack bar on premises for coffee, tea, soft drinks, candies, ice cream, etc. Hot foods are limited to personal pizzas, hot dogs, corn dogs, and pasties (a traditional Cornish miners' lunch). Attendance at a morning workshop does not obligate you to attend an afternoon workshop, and vice versa. The Life of a Miner (3 hours, $25 per attendee) Geologist Ron Mishkin tells of his experiences as a miner, from the hot depths of the appropriately named Magma mine in Arizona to the black chambers of New Jersey's Scrub Oak and Richard iron mines. Ron will discuss the dangers that miners face underground, the measures taken to protect miners from harm, and how those measures sometimes fail. Attendees to this workshop will be given a sound introduction to a miner's life, not only within the context of the mine itself, but also in relation to miners' families and the communities in which they live. Stories about miners' superstitions and legends will be provided as well. Resource Use at the Personal Level - Your Role as a Member of Society (3 hours, $25 per attendee) The extractive industries (mining, quarrying, oil and gas production) provide the raw materials needed to produce almost everything we use in our lives, but our material wealth comes at a heavy environmental toll. Most of us go about our lives with little awareness of our role in this process. However, because these industries are market-driven, our lifestyle choices largely determine the environmental fate of mined areas. This workshop is meant to serve as a reality check to connect us, the consumers, to what happens elsewhere on our behalf. In choosing our lifestyles there are few right-and-wrong answers, but there are consequences, and it is our responsibility to be aware of and acknowledge them. This workshop will include material for classroom discussions and homework assignments. Historical Development of the Franklin and Sterling Hill zinc mines (3 hours, $25 per attendee) The earliest workings of New Jersey's zinc deposits predate 1739. Since then the Franklin and Sterling Hill mines have produced more than 33 million tons of high-grade zinc ore. The story of these two mines will be recounted in this workshop, from early exploration by Dutch settlers, through failed attempts to extract metals from the ores, to final success as new technologies were developed. Attendees will learn how the zinc deposits were explored, how the mines were developed, how the ores were crushed and concentrated, and how zinc, iron, and manganese were separated from them. Modern mining practice will be illustrated by going underground in the Sterling Hill mine, where much equipment is still in place. Fluorescent Materials in our Everyday Lives (3 hours, $25 per attendee) Postage stamps, office paper, laundry detergents, driver's licenses, safety clothing - what do these things have in common? They all incorporate fluorescent materials as part of their function. Fluorescent materials are all around us, some in obvious ways (the light tubes in your office), but many hidden. Join us as we explore the many ways that fluorescence is used in our daily lives, from forgery detection to crime scene analysis to sorting the mail. This workshop includes an extended tour of the Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence, plus numerous ideas for classroom activities. Mining Technology, Past and Present (6 hours, $40 per attendee) From antiquity to the present, miners have had to devise means to light their way underground, provide fresh air to breathe, break large quantities of rock, transport mined rock through underground workings and ultimately bring it to the surface, stabilize mined openings to prevent collapse, separate ore from waste rock, and process the ore to extract its valuable components. How these needs were met has evolved dramatically over the centuries, as this historical perspective will reveal. Along the way you might develop a new appreciation for those chemistry and physics classes you took in high school - successful mining involves simple applications of both subjects on an industrial scale. Groundwater Basics (3 hours, $25 per attendee) Groundwater is one of our most precious but least understood resources. Hidden from view, its subterranean flow, chemistry, susceptibility to pollution, and relation to surface streams and lakes remain a mystery to most of us. Yet, for at least half of us in the United States, this is the water we drink, the water we depend on for our very lives. Attendees to this workshop will be given a thorough (but nontechnical, we promise) introduction to the nature of groundwater and its fragility as a national resource. Questions? Need more information? Contact Dr. Earl Verbeek at: Sterling Hill Mining Museum, 973-209-7212 E-mail: shmm@ptd.net Also see our web sites at www.sterlinghill.org and www.sterlinghill.org/warren Click Here to Return to the Home Page
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