Caretakers versus Exploiters: Impacting Biodiversity in the Age of Humans

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.05.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objective
  4. Content Background 
  5. Classroom Resources
  6. Bibliography
  7. End Notes
  8. Appendix

Ecological Effects of Strip Mining Coal on the Black Mesa Mine

Jolene Rose Smith

Published September 2020

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Classroom Resources

YouTube: Broken Rainbow Part one of seven, a video about the Peabody Mine Corporation beginning to extract coal on Black Mesa. The two tribes (Hopi and Dine) forced to move from the land that the company would be mining.  1985 ‧ Documentary/Historical Documentary ‧ 1h 10m on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqe5wu1bSWs

Extraction and Processing of Minerals & the Environmental Impacts of Mineral Use. Htpps://study.com/academy/lesson/extraction-processing-of-minerals-surface-mining-smelting.html

Wiseman, Ellen Marie. Coal River, Kensington Publishing Co 2015.

Bang, Molly, and Chisholm, Penny. Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth. The Blue Sky Press, 2014.

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