What’s Yours is Mined Card Game
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Suggested Levels: Junior and Intermediate Purpose
• To examine the use of rocks, minerals and metals in consumer products. • To demonstrate that rocks, minerals and metals are very common in everyday life. • To use language to learn and communicate ideas in social interaction and group activities.
Time
45 minutes
Resources
• What’s Yours is Mined Card Game student handout or Card Game Rules from the box • What’s Yours is Mined playing cards from the box
Link to Ontario Curriculum
Rocks, Minerals and Erosion Grade 4
• Relating Science and Technology to the World Outside the School
The Earth’s Crust Grade 7
• Relating Science and Technology to the World Outside the School
Teacher Information This activity is designed to show students that rocks, minerals and metals are very common in everyday life. Students are often intrigued to discover fluorite in toothpaste, zinc in vitamins, gypsum in walls, gold in computers and granite on buildings. Minerals make up so much of what is around us and what we use every day.
Method
Mining New Opportunities
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1. The What’s Yours is Mined Card Game student handout and Card Game Rules provide students with rules for playing two different card games, and a list of correctly matching pairs for each of the 30 products and the corresponding rock, mineral or metal. (These care games are similar to “Go Fish” and “Concentration”.) 2. Instruct students to take five minutes to review the list of correctly matching pairs before playing either of the card games. Students may keep this list on hand for easy reference as they play their games. 3. Students play both card games in pairs or in groups of four. In the first method of play, students match cards in their hand with cards in another player’s hand. In the second method of play, students try to uncover matching pairs of cards that are placed face down on a table. 4. The What’s Yours is Mined Card Game may also be used to play a game with the entire class. Place one card face down on each student’s desk, and instruct the students to stand and seek out the person with the matching card to the one they have. Once they have found their partner they sit down. When everyone has a match, each pair of students can read to the class their product and the corresponding rock, mineral or metal. 5. To summarize the card games, ask students to imagine for a moment what their life would be like without rocks, minerals and metals. Students may share their thoughts and ideas with a partner or the entire class. 6. Instruct students to record in their notebooks why Earth’s rock, mineral and metal treasures are important in our everyday life.
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Learning Activity
Junior and Intermediate Levels
