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Michigan's Natural Resources Treasure Hunt

Explore and learn about Michigan's valuable natural resources, their uses, and the consequences of their exploitation. Students will locate and analyze resources like limestone, copper, iron, coal, gravel, gypsum, water, salt, fertile soil, sand, oil, and natural gas.

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Michigan's Natural Resources Treasure Hunt

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  1. LIMESTONE COPPER IRON COAL GRAVEL GYPSUM FOREST WATER SALT FERTILE SOIL Treasure Hunt in Michigan SAND OIL NATURAL GAS

  2. Objectives • Students will be able to: • Locate natural resources of Michigan today • Describe the uses of natural resources in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region and the consequences of these uses. • Explain how Michigan’s natural resources influenced the development of mining, lumbering, and manufacturing. Lesson Overview Michigan’s rich natural resources have greatly influenced where people live and what work that they do. In this lesson students locate Michigan’s resources, learn how they have been used, and consider the consequences of those uses. Treasure Hunt in Michigan

  3. Grade Level Content Expectations 3-G1.0.1 Use thematic maps to identify and describe the physical and human characteristics of Michigan 3-G4.0.1 Describe major kinds of economic activity in Michigan today and explain factors influencing the location of these economic activities. 3-G5.0.1 Locate natural resources in Michigan and explain the consequences of their use. 3-E1.0.3 Analyze how Michigan’s location and natural resources influenced its economic development (i.e. How waterways and other natural resources have influenced economic activities) Treasure Hunt in Michigan

  4. Uses of Michigan’s Natural Resources Fertile Soil Agriculture Lower Peninsula Copper Pipes, wires, pennies, cookware Keweenaw Peninsula Gold/Silver Money, dental work, jewelry SW UP Coal Heating, electrical generation Central LP Iosco County, Grand Rapids Gypsum Plaster, wallboard, cement, chalk Heating, fuels Oil and Natural Gas Central LP Gravel Road building, sharpening tools Tip of Thumb Limestone Building, cement, manufacturing Rogers City Water Drinking, irrigation, recreation, industry Surrounding MI Iron Steel Western UP Salt Roads, preserving, manufacturing Detroit/Port Huron Sand Glass, cement, foundries, road building Lake Michigan shore

  5. Color the Land-Use map using the Great Lakes map. Complete the key.

  6. Color the Land-Use map using the Great Lakes map. Complete the key.

  7. Human Activities, Economic Development, and Consequences of Land Use Tourism, camping, parks, recreation, hiking and sports Lumbering, wood products (furniture) Mining of resources (gold, oil, iron, etc.) Manufacturing: industries making products based on materials mined Construction: sewer systems, industry, landscaping, homes, roads Growing crops (food) Grazing animals Fertilizing, clearing land Water used for industry, drinking; Great Lakes used for shipping both raw materials and products Rivers help in draining land; water for crops (irrigation) and animals; shipping grain Rivers and lakes used for shipping, paper mills, and recreation Decrease in forest cover (until reforested areas grow) Dirt roads for logging equipment may erode land Changes in natural habitats for plants and animals Valuable Timber Industry Water pollution from fertilizers and weed killers; Rural landscapes may replace forested areas. Valuable Farming Industry Change of drainage, pollution of water system (from sewage, detergent, oil products), air pollution. Homes for laborers needed for industry

  8. Using Resource #3 locate resources in Michigan Copper Gold Iron Limestone Water Add labels to map Gypsum Sand Coal Oil Nat. Gas Gravel Gypsum Salt Fertile Soil

  9. Our valuable natural resources • 1. Which of these resources are non-renewable, that is, we can use them up? • 2. Which of these resources are least valuable in Michigan today? • 3. Which of our valuable resources are used in manufacturing? • 4. Where are most manufacturing plants located in Michigan? • 5. How do manufacturing plants get the resources they need? copper, gold, coal, gypsum, oil, natural gas, gravel, limestone, iron, salt, sand copper, coal, gold and silver gypsum, oil, limestone, iron, gravel, sand, timber urban areas, lower peninsula shipping on the Great Lakes, trucking on our highways Treasure Hunt in Michigan

  10. Group assignment: • Produce a poster, picture book, or skit • about one of the valuable resources in Michigan. • Include: • *Location of resource • *At least one use • *A flow chart of economic activities associated with the resource (for example): • forests >paper mills >newspapers • water >fishing industry >restaurants • *The location of an economic activity using this resource. Treasure Hunt in Michigan

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