Lesson plan
Arizona Mining Towns: Boom (Balloon) to Bust
GiantMapActivities
Description
In this floor map activity, students will locate AZ mining towns and learn what minerals were mined in this location. This activity explains how mining has contributed to Arizona's past and present.Duration
30 minutesAuthor
Gale
Olp Ekiss
Standards
1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information2: How to use mental maps (a person's internalized picture of a part of Earth's surface) to organize information about people places, and environments
4: The physical and human characteristics of places
14: How human actions modify the physical environment
16: The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources
17: How to apply geography to interpret the past
Teacher Instructions
EkissAZMiningMapT.pdf
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Student Materials
EkissAZMining MapS.pdf
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AZ_Mining_Towns2.pdf
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