Developed by: / Katy Fluitt
This ARS focuses on primary and secondary sources on different mines in Colorado from the early 1800’s to the present. This resource is designed to start the inquiry process concerning the mineral wealth of Colorado. This in inquiry may develop into such topics as the progression of the different types of mining that occurred in Colorado, the scientific and technological influences on mining, the economic factors that influenced mining and the overall impact of mining on Colorado and the world.
Annotated Resource Set (ARS)
Notes/Comments:
1. Questions to introduce the lesson:
What kinds of minerals are found and mined in Colorado?
What do you think was the significance of the mineral wealth of Colorado throughout its history?
What was the impact of this wealth for the U.S. and the world?
What is the significance of mining today for Colorado, the U.S and the world?
How did Abraham Lincoln view the mineral wealth of Colorado?
2. Show where to find Primary Sources and how to evaluate those sources.
3. Show where to find Secondary Sources and how to evaluate those sources.
4. Show how to use the ARS document template.
Resource Set
Notes/Comments:
Abraham Lincoln, [photograph taken 1864 Feb. 9, printed later]. Lincoln recognized the value of the mineral wealth of Colorado and wrote a letter for U.S House speaker Schuyler Colfax to the miners on the day of his untimely asassination, April 16, 1865. He felt bad about being caught up in the Civil War and neglecting the west. / Panning for gold at Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado in 1891. Gold was first discovered in 1859 in Gregory Gulch nearCentral City. / Miners work inside a gold placer mine pit with a hydraulic nozzle (monitor) and a crane, near Alma, Colorado. 1885 / View of a hydraulic placer gold mine in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado; shows a miner working over a sluice. 1890-1920. The bigger and more accessible veins containing gold were quickly depleted. / View shows two young miners driving an ore train full of coal from one of the Primero coal mines, Primero (Las Animas County), Colorado. / View of the works of the Windham Silver Mining and Smelting Company, Ouray County, Colorado. Bull team in the foreground. Burro train unloading ore at the door of the receiving floor. Blast furnace at the extreme left.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/presp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsc+00052)) / (Resource Link Here)
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10060206+X-60206 / (Resource Link Here)
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10060105+X-60105 / (Resource Link Here)
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10060233+X-60233 / (Resource Link Here)
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10063176+X-63176 / (Resource Link Here)
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10014162+X-14162
In Windham, Ouray County, Colorado, men pose by a smoking blast furnace at Windham Silver Mining and Smelting Company. The frame processing plant is built into a slope; water runs from a flume; ingots are stacked outside the building. / Three and a half tons pure silver $85,000 / C. H. Hanington. Silver ingots are stacked at the Colorado Smelting Company's Works, in Denver, Colorado. Miner's and smelter's tools are on interior walls; a bowler hat and molds are on a table. 1892. / Iron Silver mine - horse for pulling train cars out of tunnel. 1870. / A miner (Tom May) and his burro (January) stand within the confines of a mining tunnel in Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado. The young man stands with one foot on the ore cart and the burro carries two lanterns on its back. 1875. / View of a miner's competition, in Silver Cliff, Colorado; shows men standing around tools and a funnel in a five-gallon can; a woman with an umbrella watches from the side. 1880. / Mule train going to the silver mines of Colorado. By the late 1880’s there was a glut of silver on the market. In 1893, the price of silver plummeted to 60 cents per troy oz. Most silver mines closed down shortly after.
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http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10014162+X-14162 / (Resource Link Here)
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10060033+X-60033 / (Resource Link Here)
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10061516+X-61516 / (Resource Link Here)
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10017659+X-17659 / (Resource Link Here)
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10060046+X-60046 / (Resource Link Here)
https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Mule-Train-Going-to-the-Silver-Mines-of-Colorado-Posters_i2873803_.htm
Creede, Colorado. Lead and silver mining in a former "ghost town". 1942 / Mollie Kathleen gold mine in the 1950’s. Mine tours were conducted due to public demand. Mining continued from the mid 40’s until 1961. Closed because no where to process gold. Reopened in 1970’s Tours resumed and the mine was renovated in the 1980’s mostly for tourism. / Colorado gold nugget
More than 40 million troy ounces have been mined in Colorado since its discovery there. Current mines are producing up to 200,000 troy oz. per year. Prices have risen to about $1,000/ troy oz. up from $300/troy oz, ten years ago. / Natural silver nugget. Silver has been worth as much as $49.45 /troy ounce (Aug 1980) and is currently at $12/troy oz. Other minerals currently mined are Molybdenum, Uranium, Vanadium, Zinc, Copper, and Lead. / Gems such as garnets (Salida Copper mine), turquoise (Conejos County), agate, diamonds and perhaps most famous is the Rhodochrosite (pictured below) from the Sweet Home mine near Alma, CO. Some of the largest Rhodochrosite crystals are worth as much as $250,000 each to collectors.
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http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8d36530)) / (Resource Link Here)
http://goldminetours.com/tourhistory.html / (Resource Link Here)
http://www.outdoor.com/activities/backpacking/colorado-gold-dust-trail/ / (Resource Link Here)
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/047/index.html#samplex3 / (Resource Link Here)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodochrosite / (Resource Link Here)
Annotations
Grade Level / Curriculum Connections / Standards / Learning Objectives / Suggested Learning Strategies / Suggested Assessment Strategies / Links to Other ResourcesAASL Standards / Colorado Standards / Content Objectives / Thinking Objectives
10 / History and/or Social Studies / 1.1 Skills
1.1.1 Follow an inquiry- based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects, and make the real- world connection for using this process in own life.
1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.
1.1.8 Demonstrate mastery of technology tools for accessing / Standard 2: Students know how to use various processes and resources of historical inquiry.
2.1 Students know how to formulate questions and hypotheses regarding what happened in the past.
2.2 Students will know how to obtain and analyze historical data to answer questions and test hypotheses.
2.3 Students know how to interpret and evaluate primary and secondary sources of historical information. / Objective 1: Understand the differences between primary and secondary sources.
Objective 2: Search for, select, question, and analyze primary sources for relevance to a particular historical inquiry.
Objective 4: Establish a line of inquiry that is supported by both primary and secondary sources. / Objective 1:
Recognize and define stages of inquiry and search for primary and secondary sources.
Objective 2: Develop strong questions with potential to identify a focus and guide further inquiry.
Objective 3: Decide which primary and secondary sources to accept or reject based on relevance to topic and questions. / Introduce lesson by asking students to ‘brainstorm” the effects of mining in Colorado and world history.
Explain beginning stages of inquiry process.
Demonstrate inquiry (both skills and thinking) using various online primary source collections.
Provide exploration time for primary source searching, working with template, and developing a beginning annotated resource set (ARS).
Explain the graphic organizer requirements. / Rubric developed for the Annotated Resource Set.
Graphic organizer using both primary and secondary sources of information. Could be a Power Point or narrative presentation.
Self-assessment instrument.
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Teaching with Primary Sources - Annotated Resource Set