TESI-5
Class of 2005 at Brockway Mountain overlooking Lake Superior
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Michigan
Tech is hosting high school and middle school teachers from all
over the United States for the Teachers' Earth Science Institute.
The program is funded thanks to a five-year, $1.5 million grant
from the National Science Foundation. During the institutes, which
began in the summer of 2001 and continue this summer through 2006,
secondary teachers will team up with University researchers and
engineers to conduct original research, both in the lab and in the
field. Topics will range from geological exploration to mining engineering
to mineral processing.
Institute graduates will return to their middle and high school
classes with new teaching ideas and experiments, plus a fresh perspectives.
Teachers are expected to incorporate TESI ideas into their classrooms
and further expand the impact of TESI by communicating ideas to
others in the teaching profession.
In
addition to the NSF grant, significant support for the Teachers'
Earth Science Institute comes from industry, including Red Metal
Minerals, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., and White Pine Copper Refinery.
Principal investigator for the NSF grant is Dr. Francis Otuonye,
Tennessee Technological University. Co-principal investigators for
the Michigan Tech subcontract to carry out the institute are Dr.
Ted Bornhorst, A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Tech; and Allison
Hein, Institute of Materials Processing, Michigan Tech. |
Dr.
Bornhorst teaching geology on the shore of Lake Superior:
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Learning about minerals at the A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum.
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Classes on structural geology.
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Determining strike and dip. |
Surveying the Copper Harbor Conglomerate |
Is this an agate . . . ? |
This is an agate. |
Dr. Ted Bornhorst
uses one of his many charts.
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TESI-5
Classroom on shore of Lake Superior: making 'bridges' from their
experience to the classroom.
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Hunting for and studying rocks and minerals in the field. Earth
science teachers collect samples to share with students in the
classroom.
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Field trip scene with class checking out the groovy traces of
glaciers.
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Panoramic view of Copper Harbor
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Dr.
Otuonye talking about underground blasting arrays.
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Exploration geology using a portable drill.
Movie
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Placing explosives in the drill hole for blasting the rock.
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Fire in the hole! Click for blast
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Practice
jackleg drilling. Movie
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Drilling underground for copper ore. Movie
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Preparing
the explosives for blasting the rock.
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Charging
the drill holes with explosive.
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The
load haul and dump cycle. Movie
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Preparing
to blast. Movie
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Underground
class on ventilation
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Contest on
how fast a miner can suit up. Movie
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Indentifying
rocks and minerals |

Field trip to the Empire Iron Mine of Cleveland Cliffs Inc. Movie
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Viewing the Republic Wetlands Preserve reclamation site
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Viewing the Empire Iron Mine of Cleveland Cliffs Inc. Movie
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Field
trip to the Tilden Iron Mine of Cleveland Cliffs Inc.
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Murray Gillis and teachers field trip to study aggregates
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Teachers'
poster displays at the Banquet
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