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Subtopic: Minerals and Rocks

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Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
Aging Diamonds? In this video from Nature, geological detectives use ancient diamonds to learn more about Earth's inner layers.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Coal Mining Anthracite coal once powered America, providing heat and transportation. At its height, the coal mining industry employed more than 200,000 people. Today, the coal mining industry in Pennsylvania has all but disappeared. All that remains are abandoned mines carved into the earth. The last mine in Eastern Pennsylvania closed in 1972, and despite efforts to preserve these mines, most have fallen into disrepair. Coal mining is a part of history now, but it is not forgotten thanks ot the photography of George Harvan. Harvan documented the human side of coal mining, preserving the images and the emotions of the men who risked their lives for coal.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Diamond Formation An expert describes the carbon composition of diamonds, as well as the conditions necessary for diamond formation in this video segment from Nature.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Diamonds Everywhere This Nature video offers an introduction to the socio-economic value of diamonds.	6-12	QuickTime VR Video
Explosion Students are asked to explain how lava is involved in the rock cycle.	6-12	QuickTime Video
The Grand Canyon: The Top Two Rock Layers This brief video segment adapted from NOVA uses illustrations and the well-preserved footprints of a small reptile to portray the history of the Grand Canyon's top two rock layers.	3-12	QuickTime Video
How Caves Form This interactive activity from NOVA Online shows four different ways in which caves are formed: by rainwater, waves, lava, and bacteria.	3-12	Flash Interactive
Inclusion Conclusions Learn where diamonds originate and how inclusions trapped within diamonds help geologists determine their age in this video segment from Nature.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Melissa Franklin: High Energy Physics This video segment adapted from Discovering Women profiles Fermilab physicist and Harvard professor Melissa Franklin.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Performing Well Under Pressure In this Nature lesson, students will explore the characteristics of diamonds. They will begin building an understanding of their formative environment, the resulting crystal structures and the physical properties of earth materials.	9-11	Lesson Plan
Periodic Table of the Elements essay This essay, written for Teachers' Domain, describes the foresight and pattern recognition that Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev used to develop the modern periodic table of elements.	6-12	PDF Document
Richard Glenn: Iñupiaq Geologist In this interactive resource adapted from Raven Radio/KCAW, listen to Iñupiaq Eskimo and geologist Richard Glenn describe the complementary nature of Alaska Native ways of knowing and the methodology of Western science.	3-12	Flash Interactive
Soil Microbes and Global Warming In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, discover how warmer winters in Alaska may cause soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Solid as a Rock Students are asked to explain how the rock cycle affected rock formations in Pennsylvania.	6-12	QuickTime Video