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Earth and Human Activity ESS3
ESS3-2 Managing Mineral Resources
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ESS3-2
Evaluate competing design solutions for developing, managing, and utilizing energy and mineral resources based on cost-benefit ratios.
Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the conservation, recycling, and reuse of resources (such as minerals and metals) where possible, and on minimizing impacts where it is not. Examples include developing best practices for agricultural soil use, mining (for coal, tar sands, and oil shales), and pumping (for petroleum and natural gas). Science knowledge indicates what can happen in natural systems—not what should happen.
Assessment Boundary: none
Prior Knowledge/Preview
The Recycling Process Conserve Energy Future
Minerals, Essential Ingredients in your Life Bureau of Land Management
Minerals in your Environment AND in your mobile phone Bureau of Lands Management
Inquiry science
Printable activity--Cobalt Mining Considerations Bureau of Land Management
On-line activity
LAB experiments
Lab #1 Global Energy flow Great Lakes BRC
Lab #2 Geo-ethics Forum--The Grey side of Green AND The Cost on the environment SERC Carleton
Lab #3
Aerospace CONNECTIONS:
Applications and examples
Asteroid Mining MIT
EXTENSION material for the curious
Mineral resources in Space--planning for 2050 USGS
Recycling Minerals NERC
The Math of Recycling metals I D Roper
Mobile phone, computer, aggregate recycling and ELEMENTS USGS
Alternative energy A chemist and a designer team up to weave solar panels into fabric Smithsonian Magazine
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