Mineral Information Institute adds to teaching toolbox
August 22, 2011The Mineral Information Institute (Mii), an affiliate of the SME Foundation, offers a new teaching tool called Mining 101. This program is now posted online and available for educators as a free download. The comprehensive PowerPoint slideshow can be found at www.mii.org/mining-101 along with the accompanying Teachers' Guide. Designed for K-12 educators, the program addresses topics from exploration and mapping to EIS requirements, sustainability, metallurgy, careers and reclamation and includes products that come from mining. The Teachers' Guide helps the educator present the program effectively and according to National Education Standards and Benchmarks. One reviewer called it "a shot in the arm for the mining industry and goes a long way to help educate people on the benefits of mining and the responsibilities we accept in order to mine." Mii's mission is to provide information and materials to teachers and students that result in an understanding that mineral and energy resources are essential to society and can be produced in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. To see more of the institute's educational products, visit www.mii.org.
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