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American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Birdseed Mining

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For this activity, students are given shallow pans with a mixture of birdseed and different colored beads. They must 'mine' the pan to extract seeds and beads, each of which is assigned a monetary value. They then calculate how much they have earned and assess any 'environmental damage' they have done on their table. Fines for this are subtracted from earnings.

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esw: birdseed mining, earth science week, ores, mining, smelting, and refining
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