Thursday, March 1, 2007

Cookie Mining 101

March 1, 2007
This was a fun (and delicious) activity to teach about the process of extracting minerals from the earth while causing as little environmental impact as possible. Students had to extract chocolate chips out of Chips Ahoy cookies, getting as many as possible, and return the crumbs to the original site - within the circle on the graph paper. See how it's done...