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Gold Exploration

Unit: Grade 7 - Earth's Crust and Resources

This activity provides the students a quick introduction to Mineral Resource Exploration or how to find a mineral deposit. Students will learn about the work of the exploration geologist as they receive 5 statements about a mineral property...

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Rocks and Minerals in your life

Unit: Grade 7 - Earth's Crust and Resources

This lesson has been adapted for Saskatchewan. The original lesson is from the EdGeo Publication Bringing Earth Science to Life: Natural Resources...

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Rock Cycle Journey and Mineral Deposits (Part 2 of 3) – Cubes

Unit: Grade 4 - Rocks, Minerals and Erosion

Station #1: Compaction and Cementation...

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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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Looking into the Earth Seismic Surveys

Unit: Grade 7 - Earth's Crust and Resources

This lesson was developed by S. Heenan for the Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents Teachers’ Companion Material. It was adapted for Saskatchewan by the SMA...

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Sustainability Lesson Plan

Unit: Grade 7 - Earth's Crust and Resources

This activity was originally developed by L. Lesperance, K. Stewart, N. Stumborg, of Areva Resources Canada Ltd. for the Saskatchewan Mining Association’s MAP (Minerals and Products) event...

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Rock Cycle Journey and Mineral Deposits (Part 3 of 3) – Lesson Plan

Unit: Grade 4 - Rocks, Minerals and Erosion

Every rock has a story to tell. Much like the life cycle of humans, rocks are created, transformed, they age and are weathered and can in some cases end up as dust before forming into another rock. This activity shares the traditional...

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Investigating Careers in the Mining Industry (2015)

Grades: 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12. Embark on a thrilling journey to explore careers in the mining industry based on your unique personality traits! In this exciting activity inspired by Holland's Personality Career Test, students dive into the fascinating world of mining by discovering their personality type among six categories: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. Through fun matching exercises, students uncover career paths tailored to each personality category, providing an engaging way to learn more about potential career options in mining.

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Mineral Exploration and Core sampling

Unit: Grade 7 - Earth's Crust and Resources

This lesson was develop by D. Klassen and M. Batty (Exploration Geologists, Cameco) for the Saskatchewan Mining Association’s Minerals and Products (MAP) event...

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Uranium Processing Removing Heavy Metals from the Wastewater

Unit: Grade 10 - Chemical Reactions

This activity was developed for the Saskatchewan Mining Association by A. Lafontaine (Teacher, Kenaston School). Uranium Processing information provided...

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Exploring for Minerals in SK Stream sediment and soil sampling

Unit: Grade 7 - Mixtures and Solutions

In this activity, students use information from geochemical surveys (stream sediment and soil samples) to predict the location of a mineral deposit...

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Rocks and Minerals in your life

Unit: Grade 4 - Rocks, Minerals and Erosion

This lesson has been adapted for Saskatchewan. The original lesson is from the EdGeo Publication Bringing Earth Science to Life: Natural Resources...

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Fly Away Birdy Challenge

Grades: 7-12. The purpose of the “GeoRobotics” project is to help learners explore real applications of robotics and innovation in the mining industry with respect to making the workplace safer, environmental protection, and career opportunities. Each project or challenge is divided into several SaskCode activities. By completing these activities, learners will be given the knowledge and skills to design, build, and program their own bird alarm using a combination of light, sound, and motion. For the class challenge, learners create a bird deterrence system for a mock tailing pond by using all of the bird alarms together.

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Mineral Exploration Stream sediment sampling

Unit: Grade 7 - Earth's Crust and Resources

In this activity, students use information from geochemical surveys (stream sediment and soil samples) to predict the location of a mineral deposit...

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Sustainability Lesson Plan

Unit: Grade 10 - Climate and Ecosystems Dynamics

This activity was originally developed by L. Lesperance, K. Stewart, N. Stumborg, of Areva Resources Canada Ltd. for the Saskatchewan Mining Association’s MAP (Minerals and Products) event...

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Physical Separation of Minerals

Unit: Grade 7 - Mixtures and Solutions

Source: This lesson has been adapted for Saskatchewan. The original lesson is from the EdGeo Publication Bringing Earth Science to Life...

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Sustainability Lesson Plan

Unit: Grade 4 - Rocks, Minerals and Erosion

This activity was originally developed by L. Lesperance, K. Stewart, N. Stumborg, of Areva Resources Canada Ltd. for the Saskatchewan Mining Association’s MAP (Minerals and Products) event...

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Marble Hopper Challenge

Grades: 7-12. In this challenge learners will design and construct a “hopper” to hold marbles, which will have a mechanism to automatically drop marbles when something is detected at the desired distance. This challenge involves designing and constructing the hopper, as well as developing and programming the circuit.

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Mineral Exploration Using Magnetics

Unit: Grade 7 - Earth's Crust and Resources

This lesson has been modified from a lesson developed for Oresome Resources...

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Cookie Mining

Unit: Grade 4 - Rocks, Minerals and Erosion

The students will be introduced to the economics of mining. Students will buy a “property”, purchase “mining equipment”, and pay for the “reclamation” of the property post “mining”...