Open filters Close filters

487 Results

Silver Cliff, CO Mining Town

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

Silver Cliff, CO Mining Town

Rating

Silver Cliff, CO Mining Town. Western Mining History presents a brief summary of Colorado's Historical Mining Towns with links to additional Colorado resources for a mining town database and mines by county. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides information on mining, mining towns, the gold and silver rush, and Photos and maps of the western United States. This is a strong primary source resource that can be used for a variety of class research projects. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.

Subject:: Anthropology; Applied Science; Chemistry; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; Economics; English Language Arts; Environmental Science; Geology; Geoscience; History; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Reading Informational Text; Social Science; Sociology; U.S. History
Material Type:: Data Set; Primary Source; Reading
Provider:: Western Mining History
Provider Set:: Colorado Mining Towns
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

Silver Plume, CO Mining Town

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

Silver Plume, CO Mining Town

Rating

Silver Plume, CO Mining Town. Western Mining History presents a brief summary of Colorado's Historical Mining Towns with links to additional Colorado resources for a mining town database and mines by county. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides information on mining, mining towns, the gold and silver rush, and Photos and maps of the western United States. This is a strong primary source resource that can be used for a variety of class research projects. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.

Subject:: Anthropology; Applied Science; Chemistry; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; Economics; English Language Arts; Environmental Science; Geology; Geoscience; History; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Reading Informational Text; Social Science; Sociology; U.S. History
Material Type:: Data Set; Primary Source; Reading
Provider:: Western Mining History
Provider Set:: Colorado Mining Towns
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

Silverton, CO Mining Town

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

Silverton, CO Mining Town

Rating

Silverton, CO Mining Town. Western Mining History presents a brief summary of Colorado's Historical Mining Towns with links to additional Colorado resources for a mining town database and mines by county. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides information on mining, mining towns, the gold and silver rush, and Photos and maps of the western United States. This is a strong primary source resource that can be used for a variety of class research projects. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.

Subject:: Anthropology; Applied Science; Chemistry; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; Economics; English Language Arts; Environmental Science; Geology; Geoscience; History; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Reading Informational Text; Social Science; Sociology; U.S. History; Women's Studies
Material Type:: Data Set; Primary Source; Reading
Provider:: Western Mining History
Provider Set:: Colorado Mining Towns
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

Site Seeing Beginning Level

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

Site Seeing Beginning Level

Rating

The purpose of this resource is to investigate the center pixel of a homogeneous land Cover Site in order to understand that individual land areas are part of a larger land system.

Subject:: Applied Science; Astronomy; Chemistry; Earth and Space Science; Ecology; Education; Engineering; Environmental Science; Life Science; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Physics
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment; Interactive; Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: NASA
Provider Set:: NASA Wavelength
Date Added:: 05/02/2023

Slab temperatures control melting in subduction zones, what controls slab temperature?

Conditional Remix & Share Permitted

CC BY-NC-SA

Slab temperatures control melting in subduction zones, what controls slab temperature?

Rating

Hands-on demonstrations of advection and diffusion of heat in subduction zones, and their controls on slab thermal evolution and relationships to melting, using analog models.

Subject:: Earth and Space Science; Geology; Physical Geography
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 04/12/2023

Small Artifact Storage: Stop 15 Museum of the West Virtual Tour

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

Small Artifact Storage: Stop 15 Museum of the West Virtual Tour

Rating

Small Artifact Storage: Stop 15 Museum of the West Virtual Tour. Watch this short video to learn about a Museum of the West exhibit or collection to preview your field trip or for a virtual field trip if you are unable to attend in person. The Museum of the West is part of the Museums of Westen Colorado. Museum of the West Collections Manager, Matti Fisher, takes us into small artifact storage and explains how the museum cares for historic artifacts.

Subject:: Anthropology; Archaeology; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; History; Physical Geography; Social Science; U.S. History
Material Type:: Student Guide
Provider:: Museums of Western Colorado
Provider Set:: Museum of the West
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

Smuggler, CO Mining Town

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

Smuggler, CO Mining Town

Rating

Smuggler, CO Mining Town. Western Mining History presents a brief summary of Colorado's Historical Mining Towns with links to additional Colorado resources for a mining town database and mines by county. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides information on mining, mining towns, the gold and silver rush, and Photos and maps of the western United States. This is a strong primary source resource that can be used for a variety of class research projects. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.

Subject:: Anthropology; Applied Science; Chemistry; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; Economics; English Language Arts; Environmental Science; Geology; Geoscience; History; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Reading Informational Text; Social Science; Sociology; U.S. History
Material Type:: Data Set; Primary Source; Reading
Provider:: Western Mining History
Provider Set:: Colorado Mining Towns
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

Sneffels, CO Mining Town

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

Sneffels, CO Mining Town

Rating

Sneffels, CO Mining Town. Western Mining History presents a brief summary of Colorado's Historical Mining Towns with links to additional Colorado resources for a mining town database and mines by county. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides information on mining, mining towns, the gold and silver rush, and Photos and maps of the western United States. This is a strong primary source resource that can be used for a variety of class research projects. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.

Subject:: Anthropology; Applied Science; Chemistry; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; Economics; English Language Arts; Environmental Science; Geology; Geoscience; History; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Reading Informational Text; Social Science; Sociology; U.S. History
Material Type:: Data Set; Primary Source; Reading
Provider:: Western Mining History
Provider Set:: Colorado Mining Towns
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

Snow Avalanches

Conditional Remix & Share Permitted

CC BY-NC-SA

Snow Avalanches

Rating

In this activity, students have to select the most convenient backcountry ski route to climb a peak located near Brighton ski resort (Utah). In order to select the route, they have to evaluate the information provided by the Utah Avalanche Center and to calculate distances and slope angles from a topographic map of the area.

Subject:: Earth and Space Science; Geology; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Physical Geography
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 04/12/2023

Soil Carbon STEM Kit

Conditional Remix & Share Permitted

CC BY-NC-SA

Soil Carbon STEM Kit

Rating

Soil Carbon STEM Kit. The Natural Sciences Education & Outreach Center collaborates with CSU faculty, National Parks and citizen science programs to translate their current scientific research into unique STEM experiences for students in the form of Educational Kits that can be checked out. Each kit contains just about all of the materials needed (minus common things like water and paper towels) to explore some really interesting scientific research topics.The kits are available for teachers and informal educators in Colorado to check out for a duration of a week by submitting either a local pickup form or a delivery form available at the linked website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVNHtSSSa8c This kit is provided free for educational use. This kit is available in Spanish also at the link provided. .

Soil analysis for the community garden

Conditional Remix & Share Permitted

CC BY-NC-SA

Soil analysis for the community garden

Rating

Otterbein is in the process of developing a community garden on its newly opened Equestrian Science facility. This facility was a former industrial manufacturing location. The site was redeveloped through the Ohio Voluntary Action Program, the state's Brownfield redevelopment program. As part of the garden development, Otterbein sampled soils in the proposed garden area to verify that no hazardous constituents are present. This exercise challenges students to develop a map showing the location of the gardens and the analytical results.

(Note: this resource was added to OER Commons as part of a batch upload of over 2,200 records. If you notice an issue with the quality of the metadata, please let us know by using the 'report' button and we will flag it for consideration.)

Subject:: Agriculture; Agriculture and Natural Resources; Biology; Chemistry; Earth and Space Science; Life Science; Physical Geography; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Author:: Kevin Svitana
Date Added:: 08/17/2019

Conditional Remix & Share Permitted

CC BY-NC-SA

Soils Mapping

Rating

Students collect a soil near their house or other location, analyze it using grain size, plot the locations and collectively create a soils map of campus or larger area. This exercise can be tailored for many different grade levels. I've used it from 4th grade through Physical Geology classes

Subject:: Earth and Space Science; Geology; Physical Geography
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 04/12/2023

Soils as Construction Materials

Conditional Remix & Share Permitted

CC BY-NC-SA

Soils as Construction Materials

Rating

This geotechnical project will introduce you with the concept of using soils as construction materials.This project involves characterizing soils using various laboratory analyses and applying the Unified Soil Classification System in naming the soil.

Keywords: Geotechnical, Mass Wetness, Grain Size Analysis, Atterberg Limits

(Note: this resource was added to OER Commons as part of a batch upload of over 2,200 records. If you notice an issue with the quality of the metadata, please let us know by using the 'report' button and we will flag it for consideration.)

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Biology; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Physical Geography
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 08/06/2019

Soup Can Water Budget

Conditional Remix & Share Permitted

CC BY-NC-SA

Soup Can Water Budget

Rating

During the first activity, students use materials to create an apparatus and process to investigate the ultimate destination for water delivered to a system. Students make quantitative measurements and compare two different soil substrates. The first activity results in a mental schema for how water ultimately flows through a system.

Subject:: Earth and Space Science; Geology; Physical Geography
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 04/12/2023

Spanish Explorers: Stop 1 Museum of the West Virtual Tour

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

Spanish Explorers: Stop 1 Museum of the West Virtual Tour

Rating

Spanish Explorers: Stop 1 Museum of the West Virtual Tour. Watch this short video to learn about a Museum of the West exhibit or collection to preview your field trip or for a virtual field trip if you are unable to attend in person. The Museum of the West is part of the Museums of Westen Colorado. Did you know that the Spanish once explored Western Colorado? Curator of History David Bailey describes the armor used by the early Spanish explorers and what life was like for them.

Subject:: Anthropology; Archaeology; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; History; Physical Geography; Social Science; U.S. History
Material Type:: Lecture; Lesson; Primary Source; Student Guide
Provider:: Museums of Western Colorado
Provider Set:: Museum of the West
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

Spanish Explorers and the Mystery of the Redoubt Site: Stop 2 Museum of the West Virtual Tour

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

Spanish Explorers and the Mystery of the Redoubt Site: Stop 2 Museum of the West Virtual Tour

Rating

Spanish Explorers and the Mystery of the Redoubt Site: Stop 2 Museum of the West Virtual Tour. Watch this short video to learn about a Museum of the West exhibit or collection to preview your field trip or for a virtual field trip if you are unable to attend in person. The Museum of the West is part of the Museums of Westen Colorado. Did you know that the Spanish once explored Western Colorado? Why did the Spanish come to Western Colorado and what happened at the Redoubt Site? Curator of History and Director of the Western Investigations Team, David Bailey tells us more about why the Spanish were here and the unsolved mystery of the Redoubt Site.

Subject:: Anthropology; Archaeology; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; History; Physical Geography; Social Science; U.S. History
Material Type:: Lecture; Lesson; Primary Source; Student Guide
Provider:: Museums of Western Colorado
Provider Set:: Museum of the West
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

St Elmo, CO Mining Town

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

St Elmo, CO Mining Town

Rating

St Elmo, CO Mining Town. Western Mining History presents a brief summary of Colorado's Historical Mining Towns with links to additional Colorado resources for a mining town database and mines by county. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides information on mining, mining towns, the gold and silver rush, and Photos and maps of the western United States. This is a strong primary source resource that can be used for a variety of class research projects. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.

Subject:: Anthropology; Applied Science; Chemistry; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; Economics; English Language Arts; Environmental Science; Geology; Geoscience; History; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Reading Informational Text; Social Science; Sociology; U.S. History
Material Type:: Data Set; Primary Source; Reading
Provider:: Western Mining History
Provider Set:: Colorado Mining Towns
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

The Stagecoach: A Photo Essay on Western Travel

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

The Stagecoach: A Photo Essay on Western Travel

Rating

Western Mining History presents a short history of stagecoach travel from the frontier west during the gold and silver rush. The resources shows Historical|Photographs of stagecoach travel. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides databases, information on mining, mining towns, gold and Photos and maps of the western United States. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.

Subject:: Anthropology; Business and Communication; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; Economics; English Language Arts; Finance; History; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Reading Informational Text; Social Science; Sociology; U.S. History
Material Type:: Primary Source; Reading
Provider:: Western Mining History
Provider Set:: Mining History
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

The Stagecoaches and Mudwagons: Stop 11 Museum of the West Virtual Tour

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

The Stagecoaches and Mudwagons: Stop 11 Museum of the West Virtual Tour

Rating

The Stagecoaches and Mudwagons: Stop 11 Museum of the West Virtual Tour. Watch this short video to learn about a Museum of the West exhibit or collection to preview your field trip or for a virtual field trip if you are unable to attend in person. The Museum of the West is part of the Museums of Westen Colorado.

Subject:: Anthropology; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; History; Physical Geography; Social Science; U.S. History
Material Type:: Lecture; Lesson; Primary Source; Student Guide
Provider:: Museums of Western Colorado
Provider Set:: Museum of the West
Date Added:: 02/06/2023

States of the Union, Mountain Men: Lesson 3, Museums of the West: Social Studies Lessons, Museums of the West: Social Studies Lessons

Read the Fine Print

Educational Use

States of the Union, Mountain Men: Lesson 3, Museums of the West: Social Studies Lessons, Museums of the West: Social Studies Lessons

Rating

Mountain Men Social Studies Lesson 3 State of the Union is designed to be used with Mountain Man Artifact Kit. Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 can be completed without the artifacts from the kit. These kits are available through Musuems of Western Colorado to D51 Teachers. This lesson can be adapted to use without the kit. Students will be able to: • describe how and why the United States territory grew during the 1800’s • explain how the Fur Trade had an effect on growth.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Anthropology; Applied Science; Cultural Geography; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; History; Life Science; Physical Geography; Social Science; U.S. History; Zoology
Material Type:: Lesson; Lesson Plan
Provider:: Museums of Western Colorado
Provider Set:: Museum of the West
Date Added:: 02/06/2023