Activity #2 - Sorting Copper

Materials:

• Store-bought crisp chocolate chip cookies.
• Mineral Extraction Activity Sheets
• Pencil

Directions:

1. Take out at least one cookie from the package. The cookie represents the rock that was taken from the mines. The chocolate chips represent the copper that is surrounded by poor rock.

2. Extract the “copper” from the “poor rock” by breaking the cookies apart and retrieving the chocolate chips.

3. Fill out the Mineral Extraction Activity Sheet.

 

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