Geology
1041: Freshman Seminar: Minerals and Life
All that Glitters is not Gold
Spring 2008
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| UMD Home |
Journal Content
This will be an ongoing page which I will add to week by week. If you keep up with this, you won't have a lot of extra time to put in at the end of the semester.
| Week 1 | Introduction | Write a paragraph about what you expect to get out of this class. |
| Week 2 | Mineral ID | Notes on mineral ID. Your graded assignment. Your notes on the physical properties of fifteen minerals. Any feedback you can give me about this topic. |
| Week 3 | History of the Usage of Minerals | Notes from class. Assignment 2: Outline of Chapter 3 of "Resources of the Earth". In class assignment and homework: Nickel |
| Week 4 | Collecting Data on Mineral Use | Your charts you made for Iron. Notes on the use of iron. Assignment 3. |
| Week 5 | Black Gold: OIL | How can you reduce your carbon footprint? |
| Week 6 | Plate Tectonics | Notes on Plate Tectonics. Where we find Minerals. How they are associated with rocks at plate boundaries. |
| Week 7 | Base and Precious Metals | We learned a little about how Cu deposits form: Cu porphyries. We also did a power point on placer deposits. What did you learn here? |
| Week 8 | Your presentations | What did you learn about yourself doing this presentation? Peer Evaluations |
| BREAK!!!! | Have a good time. | |
| Week 9 | Mining |
Cookie Mining--What did you think? Write an essay on what the world would be like without aluminum Assignment 4 |
| Week 10 | We are what we eat! | Assignment 5 Let me know what you get out of this week!! |
| Week 11 | Discussion on decreasing resource use. | Assignment 6 What did you read for this presentation? Why did you select your method of reducing resources? |
| Week 12 | The not-so-nice! | Collecting data on Asbestos! |
Mine trip: notes and photos |
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| Week 13 | Your presentations | Peer Evaluations |
| Week 14 | Industrial Minerals | Assignment 7 : Lime Please write a paragraph about your thoughts on this assignment. |
| Week 15 | Ice??? | Assignment 8 |
| Finals | Journal Due | |
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