NOTICE

Resource kits are available in English or French, through a prerequisite in-service workshop. Workshops can be arranged for between 10 to 24 teachers, anywhere in Canada, with four weeks’ prior notice. Click the link below to book a workshop.

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Deeper and Deeper: Discovering Rocks and Minerals

Junior/Elementary

Examine rocks and minerals and investigate their importance in your life. Explore how soil and erosion affect landscape and land usage. Discover the benefits and costs of using products made from mined materials. The Deeper and Deeper kit includes:

• 39 lesson plans, each includes student activity cards.
• Word document of Student Blackline. Master for easy modifications and photocopying.
• Mineral testing equipment
• 36 rock and 29 mineral samples which are needed for the activities.
• Posters, photographs, DVD, diagrams, book, card game used in the activities.
• Additional resources such as word wall cards, posters, and fact sheets.
• Sturdy storage container.

*Subsidized cost for schools: $60.00 - includes the kit and a prerequisite in-service workshop (Shipping and handling extra)

                                                                
Mining Matters Deeper and Deeper online tutorials are now here to help guide you through the activities in this resource kit. The tutorials provide training for teachers whose remote locations prevent them from participating in an "in-person" workshop for teachers who have already participated in a training session and would like to refresh their knowledge, and for those who have discovered a Deeper and Deeper resource in their school and require training to help them deliver the materials. Click here to watch them now.

Core Concepts

Intermediate/Middle

The Core Concept Kit explores Earth science and minerals resources. Themes include the structure of the Earth, rocks and minerals, soil and erosion, mining cycle, and social and environmental responsibility. The Core Concepts Kit includes:

• Lesson Plans 
• 72 mineral and rock samples and testing equipment 
• Additional resources such as posters and publications
• Sturdy storage container

*Subsidized cost for schools: $65.00 - includes the kit and a prerequisite in-service workshop (Shipping and handling extra)

Discovering Diamonds: A Canadian Earth Science Curriculum Resource

Senior/Secondary

Using authentic data and hands-on experiences, students will learn about Earth science through activities linked by the theme of Canada's world-class diamond-bearing deposits. Diamond formation reveals knowledge of the Earth's formation and structure. Modern technology that is being applied to the discovery, extraction and processing of diamonds requires understand of internal and surficial processes.  The Discovering Diamonds kit includes:

• 21 hands-on activities that encourage critical thinking and incorporate elements of every area of Earth science.
• Kimberlite and indicator mineral samples. View a kimberlite pipe animation here.
• Slideshow presentation with photographs of diamonds, geological field methods, glacial landscapes, and diamond mines
• Resource files: Digital versions of data and fact sheets used in student activities.

*Subsidized cost for schools: $75.00 - includes the kit and a prerequisite in-service workshop (Shipping and handling extra)

*Each year, we offer a limited number of classroom resource kits at a significantly subsidized rate of $60 to $75 per kit, made possible through the generous sponsorship of BMO. These kits, valued between $450 and $600, are prioritized for active classroom teachers.

Mining Matters thanks BMO for their invaluable support in making these crucial resources available to classrooms across the country.