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Potash Solution Mining Model
Grades: 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, & 12. In a hands-on, inquiry, and model making challenge, students are hired as mining engineers to bring the potash to the surface without using underground workers. Students learn about mechanical mixtures, solutions, solubility, dissolution, and evaporation through inquiry based experimentation.
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Place Matters: Interweaving Indigenous Storytelling into Mineral Resource Education
Grades: 4 - 12. The Place Matters Unit was created by combining Indigenous storytelling, existing mining in Saskatchewan resources, and curriculum connections into an impactful and thought-provoking unit about mineral resource development. There are four main topics within the unit. Use maps and stories to understand the importance of place to oneself. Build a habitat while learning about environmental sustainability. Explore the rock cycle and mining cycle while learning that rocks are sacred. When a chocolate chip cookie, or a candy filled cake / cupcake is placed in the habitat, students work together as a mining company to develop collaborative agreements, reclamation plans, and exploration studies to mine their resources sustainably within their habitats.
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1. Potash Detectives
Grades: 4, 5, 7 & 9-12. Learners will become detectives as they uncover the mystery of potash by rotating through stations and filling in their doodle notes worksheet. Each station is developed as a clue with a yellow evidence card, asking important potash questions (what, where, when, why, and how). This lesson is an update from the original Potash Kit lessons combining..."Potash, What is it?" "Is there Potash Under My Feet?" and "Healing Waters of Manitou Activity."