This merit badge project looks at the practical side of minerals, or how rocks and minerals are used in everyday life. We are surrounded by evidence of our mining heritage, form gypsum in our walls to brass knobs on doors and clay in our flowerpots and on the pages of gloss magazines. The following activities will help you to appreciate the role of mining and minerals play in day-to-day life.
Activity 2.2 Minerals in the home. Write a report about minerals in your home, or in a particular room in your home: your bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room, etc.
Activity 2.5 Field trip to a hardware store. Take a "field trip" to a local hardware store or home building supply store. List some of the things you see there and their source materials.
Activity 2.6: Careers in the earth sciences. Learn about careers in the earth sciences (mining, teaching, gemology, the jewelry business, paleontologist, museum work, etc.). Write a brief paper imaging yourself in such a career and some adventure you might undertake in that job. For instance, an oil geologist might be taking a boat ride to an off-shore oil platform. A paleontologist with a museum or university might be exploring for fossils in the Gobi Desert. A gemologist might be cutting the world's largest blue diamond. What would be an interesting job to you?
To earn your Earth Resources badge, you need to complete these activities.
Due date for ths merit badge is December 31, 2010
The Pikes Peak Pebble Pups and Earth Science Scholars: We explore the wonders of rock, mineral,and fossil collecting in the Pikes Peak region. Our program participates with the Future Rockhounds of America under the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Our purpose is to train Pebble Pups and Junior Members (teens) to become skilled rockhounds. The Pebble Pups and Junior Members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society and the Lake George Gem and Mineral Club use this site.
Pikes Peak Pebble Pups
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