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Mining

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Iron-Ore Mining in Minnesota

Hill Annex Mine, Soudan Mine, Millford Mine, Hillrust Mine

Overview

Welcome to our final collaborative project for Social Studies Methods at Bemidji State University. This project was created by Corissa Hanna, Rachel Johnson, Jodell Lox, Kristina Olson, Devon Owings, Ann Thier, and Rebecca Tulechik.

Through out the Building America wiki you find 3 themes embedded in projects, lesson plans, and children's literature. These 3 themes are mining, immigration, and labor issues. At the beginning of this semester we read and discussed a book called Out_of_This_Furnace by Thomas Bell. This book integrates the 3 themes mentioned above. After reading this book each student in this class chose a children's literature book and created corresponding lesson plans and activities. Finally, the children's literature books were divided up among the 3 themes and final projects were created from there. In our final project-Mining you will find the following, which are all linked at the bottom of this page:

A lesson plan in which students in 4th-8th grade will research 4 mines in Northern, Minnesota. They will then present their findings through a jigsaw activity.
Ten internet websites that correlate with the lesson plan.
Ten concepts that correlate with the lesson plan.
A google earth tour of the mines
A interview with a retired miner
Photos and videos of mines and miners
Children's Mining Literature lesson plans and activities

Click on the link below to view our resources on this topic or return to the main pages.

Link to: Mining Internet Resources

Link to: Mining Concepts in Minnesota

Link to: Mining Lesson Plan

Link to: Mining Google Earth

Link to: Mining Photos and Videos

Link to: Mining Voicethread

Link to: Final Projects

Link to: FrontPage

Children's Mining Literature

Stories about Mining	Summary	Student author of curriculum
In Coal Country by Judith Hendershot	Tells the story of growing up in a coal-mining town through the eyes of a coal miner's daughter. Ages 4-8.	Kristina Olson
Growing Up in Coal Country by Susan Campbell Bartoletti	This is a composition of many stories of children who worked in the coal mines in the late 1880 to early 1900's. This book has great stories directly from the young boys who worked in the mines and has many, many pictures. Age group 4th through 8th grade depending on the focus of the lesson.	Ann Thier
Calico Dorsey by Susan Lendroth	A action packed story of a mail carrying dog in the Calico, Ca mining towns. Ages 3-99	Rebecca Tulechik
Out of the Ordinary by Michelle M. Barone	The character of Julia, based on the author's grandmother, attends a one-room schoolhouse with children in grades one through eight during the early 20th century. When workplace difficulties arise for the miners in the near by town where her father works, Julia is the only one who can prevent a similar disaster.	Corissa Hanna
BoyOfTheDeeps By Ian Wallace	Based on the story of the authors own grandfather who worked down an English mine when he was a boy. This is a powerful and very meaningful picture book that paints a picture in words and illustrations of what it was like to be a child who had to work for a living.	Devon Owings
A Bride for Anna's Papa by Isabel R. Marvin	The character in the story, Anna looses her mother at the age of 13. It is 1907, and she is now in charge of caring for her family, including her 9 year old brother, and her father. Her father is a mine worker in the iron ore mines on Minnesota's iron range. She tries to help her lonely father out by finding him a "mail order" bride from Finland. This fills the family full of different emotions and struggles. Ages 12-13	Rachel Johnson
America at Work- Mining	A set of twins, learns about where the metal for the skate blades comes from. They learn about all the methods used in detecting different minerals, how ore is mined and how a blast furnace works	Jodelle Lox

Comments (6)

I added some pictures that can go on any of our wiki pages. These pictures come from mines in Minnesota.

Kristina- Thanks so much for sharing the voice thread. It's put together really well and the content will keep the students engaged.

p.s I like the iron icon on the thread as well.

The VoiceThread looks great! Nice work. Should we also create a timeline of mining in Minnesota?

Kristina, I see that you took the voice thread away. I was going to have you site it for creating the slides and put the date of the interview and whom the interview took place with.

The responsibilities and timeline look great!

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