Mineral+Paperless+Unit

10-26-09 Work


 * 1) Go on-line and search for information about uses of minerals that are important to society.
 * 1) Choose one mineral that you think has a very important use.
 * 1) Collect the following information and - post it to your wiki:
 * 1) Name of the mineral Calcium
 * 2) Describe the mineral – physical description soft, silvery matallic.
 * 3) Image of the mineral – it doesn’t have to be a pretty mineral to be useful!
 * 4) [[image:Calcium.jpg width="169" height="107"]]
 * 5) Describe what the mineral is used for. used to make things strong, used to make cheese, used to take out oxygen, sulfur, and carbon from certain alloys.
 * 6) Where is the mineral found and mined? What country or countries. Found in the crust, one country it is found in is England.

More 10-26 Work - New Base Groop Meeting and Meet the Problem-Please open and complete this document [|More 10-26 Work.doc]and post the results on the 10-26 Notes Page (one posting/new group). You will then watch a viedeo, record information down, find another video/article and post notes as a group to the 10-26 Video Notes Page. At the end of this activity, you should be able to answer the question: What does a journalist do?

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/27/news/international/congo.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009032715 Electronics makers are pressed to stop using 'conflict minerals' from mines controlled by armed groups in DR Congo. Coltan is a mineral found in Congo, it can be used in electronics. Armed groups make profits by exporting this mineral out to other countries that use Coltan. Previous efforts to clean up supply chains have had mixed results. A jounalist researches and interviews people to the the story he is investigating.