Min(e)d Your Metals: Inquiries into the Environmental Impact of Extraction

Autor/inn/en	Adams, Erin C.; Varga, Bretton A.
Titel	Min(e)d Your Metals: Inquiries into the Environmental Impact of Extraction
Quelle	In: Geography Teacher, 20 (2023) 1, S.23-28 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Adams, Erin C.) ORCID (Varga, Bretton A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1933-8341
DOI	10.1080/19338341.2022.2117723
Schlagwörter	Environmental Education; Inquiry; Mining; Metallurgy; Mineralogy; Geography; Learning Activities; Media Literacy; Middle School Students; High School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Abbau; Hüttenwesen; Mineralogie; Geografie; Lernaktivität; Media skills; Medie competence; Medienkompetenz; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin
Abstract	Minerals and metals are part of everyday existence, including in the air people breathe. They are either in, or have a hand in creating, nearly all of consumer products. As essential as they are, minerals and metals are too often unseen, unappreciated, and unnoticed. In the teaching of preservice primary and secondary teachers as well as high school students, the authors have found that while students might understand the relationship between burning coal and air pollution and may have learned about gold and diamond mining in history courses, they have little understanding about the extraction of minerals and metals that fuel their lives. The authors believe that lessons framed around the motivations, harms, and consequences of mining, in particular metals and minerals, are critical in fostering a heightened attunement to the precarious state of the environment and the role product consumption plays in its ongoing deterioration. Upon completion of the lessons in this article, students will have a heightened awareness of the role mining and minerals play in the creation of everyday objects and will begin to theorize possible alternative framings to renewable energy. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01