Review for:U.S. Geological SurveyIf you used this resource in your own classroom, please add your review. posted: on November 9, 2006 at 11:54AM
My rating of this resource: *****
My experience using this resource: Earth Science (jr/sr elective)
Topic I was teaching: minerals
My learning goal for which this resource was used: students discover that minerals are more concentrated in certain regions of the countrystudents learn about how minerals are obtained, processed, and used
Course Level: Intro or Regular
How I/my students used the resource: Students used this as a starting point for a short research paper on two minerals, and were encouraged to find other sources on their own.
Value Added: Provides access to data sets, Provides additional content, Provides assessment opportunity, Increases student engagement and motivation
Strengths: Professional quality information
Weaknesses: Students must be able to manage technical vocabulary and sift through much information to answer the specific questions that were posed to them
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Note: NSF funding for this project has ended and this site has been converted to a static archive of the working site; dynamic functionality including logging in, search, and posting have been disabled.