Vocabulary:
| mechanized
access shaft mine |
slope mine
drift mine hoist |
barge |
Evaluation:
| 1. What is the difference between surface mining and underground mining?
2. Describe the difference between shaft, slope and drift mines. 3. What has changed modern mining? |
Activities:
| 1. In the DVD, Coal Camp Memories, Hallie Marie describes the conditions in the mine where Jimmy works. Discuss the difference between working conditions then and now.
2. Interview a working miner and a retired miner. Compare working conditions then and now. 3. Invite a miner to your classroom as a guest speaker. 4. Research how coal is removed from the mine. 5. Find out how much coal is produced by a miner per day. 6. Contact mining equipment companies for pictures and literature on different types of equipment. 7. Make a model or a poster depicted modes of transportation of coal. 8. Collect photographs of local methods of transportation. |