Post by colorshapetexture on Apr 24, 2011 7:12:19 GMT -5
This sounds like a great opportunity for a teacher for ongoing Ed. and a great adventure. Besides teachers deserve it.
I belong to another group where a lot of professional and non professional rockhounds talk. This is what one of the members posted.
Makes me wish I was a teacher..Not! But I still want to go. Jim
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
It occurred to me that this List may be a good place to post something about this class, because many of you probably have friends who are teachers, and some perhaps are yourselves. If so, I'd appreciate it if you would pass this info on to any teachers (science, or otherwise) whom you know and who might be interested!
"All About Mining: A Total Concept of the Mining Industry" is a unique and, I believe, very worthwhile summer course conducted for teachers through the Colorado School of Mines Teacher Enhancement Program. The four-week, 6-credit graduate recertification course is now in its forty-something year of giving teachers a first-hand experience in seeing what the U.S. mining and minerals industry is all about. It is held on the CSM campus in Golden, Colorado, and it combines classroom presentations with field trips to visit mines, mills, quarries, laboratories, Dinosaur Ridge, the USGS National Earthquake Information Center, and such sites as a power plant, steel mill, and gypsum board manufacturing plant. The $250 tuition fee includes all the field trips, including numerous bus or van excursions, and lodging during a three-day field trip to tour mines and plants on Colorado's west slope. The course is aimed at teachers nationwide as well as those from Colorado, and those coming!
from out-of-state can apply for scholarships to defray their costs of travel and lodging in campus dorms. I have helped conduct some of the field trips and lectures for this course, and I can attest that teachers who take it come away with a lot of remarkable experiences and memories and a good appreciation for the importance of mining to our society and economy, plus a hard hat and a pair of steel-toe boots!
Here are the course details; more info (with pictures!) is on the allaboutmining website given below, and one can register through the csm website link. Registration places for the course are still available.
I'm sure that a lot of people on this Rockhounds list might wish they were teachers so they could take this course too! (How many have been in an underground coal mine, or held in your hands a gold-silver "dore" ingot fresh from the furnance pouring, worth upwards of a half million dollars?) (At today's precious metal prices, it is probably pushing a million. It definitely takes two hands to hold such an ingot!)
Pete Modreski, US Geological Survey, Denver, CO
All About Mining: A Total Concept of the Mining Industry
Course Number CT-5700-11M ; 6.00 semester credit hours
Date June 20-July 15; Location CSM Campus, Golden, CO
Time 8:00am-early/mid afternoon (except on field trips)
Coordinator Dan Witkowsky, 303/972-1814 or DanielWitkowsky@aol.com
Website: www.allaboutmining.org
Tuition Fee ($300 for registrations received after May 31) : $ 250.00
Registration Contact: CMA (Colorado Mining Association) Education Foundation, 303/575-9199
â?oObtain a general overview of the minerals industries, including geology, mining, ore-processing, environmental responsibility, career opportunities, etc., from industry experts via classroom lectures and nine days of field trips to surface/underground mines and processing plants. Finish the course with a set of lesson plans, developed by course participants, that you can apply in your classroom this fall.â?
Read more or register for the course at the Colorado School of Mines, Special Programs and Continuing Education, Teacher Enhancement Program website: te.csmspace.com/register.php?c=48
I belong to another group where a lot of professional and non professional rockhounds talk. This is what one of the members posted.
Makes me wish I was a teacher..Not! But I still want to go. Jim
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
It occurred to me that this List may be a good place to post something about this class, because many of you probably have friends who are teachers, and some perhaps are yourselves. If so, I'd appreciate it if you would pass this info on to any teachers (science, or otherwise) whom you know and who might be interested!
"All About Mining: A Total Concept of the Mining Industry" is a unique and, I believe, very worthwhile summer course conducted for teachers through the Colorado School of Mines Teacher Enhancement Program. The four-week, 6-credit graduate recertification course is now in its forty-something year of giving teachers a first-hand experience in seeing what the U.S. mining and minerals industry is all about. It is held on the CSM campus in Golden, Colorado, and it combines classroom presentations with field trips to visit mines, mills, quarries, laboratories, Dinosaur Ridge, the USGS National Earthquake Information Center, and such sites as a power plant, steel mill, and gypsum board manufacturing plant. The $250 tuition fee includes all the field trips, including numerous bus or van excursions, and lodging during a three-day field trip to tour mines and plants on Colorado's west slope. The course is aimed at teachers nationwide as well as those from Colorado, and those coming!
from out-of-state can apply for scholarships to defray their costs of travel and lodging in campus dorms. I have helped conduct some of the field trips and lectures for this course, and I can attest that teachers who take it come away with a lot of remarkable experiences and memories and a good appreciation for the importance of mining to our society and economy, plus a hard hat and a pair of steel-toe boots!
Here are the course details; more info (with pictures!) is on the allaboutmining website given below, and one can register through the csm website link. Registration places for the course are still available.
I'm sure that a lot of people on this Rockhounds list might wish they were teachers so they could take this course too! (How many have been in an underground coal mine, or held in your hands a gold-silver "dore" ingot fresh from the furnance pouring, worth upwards of a half million dollars?) (At today's precious metal prices, it is probably pushing a million. It definitely takes two hands to hold such an ingot!)
Pete Modreski, US Geological Survey, Denver, CO
All About Mining: A Total Concept of the Mining Industry
Course Number CT-5700-11M ; 6.00 semester credit hours
Date June 20-July 15; Location CSM Campus, Golden, CO
Time 8:00am-early/mid afternoon (except on field trips)
Coordinator Dan Witkowsky, 303/972-1814 or DanielWitkowsky@aol.com
Website: www.allaboutmining.org
Tuition Fee ($300 for registrations received after May 31) : $ 250.00
Registration Contact: CMA (Colorado Mining Association) Education Foundation, 303/575-9199
â?oObtain a general overview of the minerals industries, including geology, mining, ore-processing, environmental responsibility, career opportunities, etc., from industry experts via classroom lectures and nine days of field trips to surface/underground mines and processing plants. Finish the course with a set of lesson plans, developed by course participants, that you can apply in your classroom this fall.â?
Read more or register for the course at the Colorado School of Mines, Special Programs and Continuing Education, Teacher Enhancement Program website: te.csmspace.com/register.php?c=48