This morning I accepted a job offer to teach full-time at Walden School in Provo, Utah. (here is their website: Walden School Website). I will be teaching a combination of chemistry, earth science, and multimedia courses at the high school level. Walden is a small charter school that follows the Montessori philosophy of providing a [...]
Archive for June, 2010
A New Base of Operations
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged creative students, walden school, project-based learning, pbl, montessori, 3D star model, mars 3D terrains, creativity, educational philosophy, hands-on on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Beryllium Part 2 Video is Done
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged mining, chemical engineering, beryllium, brush wellman, periodic table, beryllia, bertrandite, brush engineered materials, beryl, spor mountains, brush resources, beryllium alloys, topaz mountain, counter-current decantation, utah mines, beryllium ceramics, refining ore, delta utah, elmore ohio, chronic beryllium disease, cbd, beryllium safety, solvent extraction on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The second part of the video on beryllium is now finished. You can watch it here: This video has literally been 2 1/2 years in the making; my students Amy Zirbes and Nathan Jane videotaped our interview with subject expert Phil Sabey, the Manager of Technology and Quality at the Delta mill, in NOvember, 2007. [...]
The Legacy of the Tintic Mining District
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged mining, tintic mining district, eureka utah, silver ore, superfund site, mine reclamation, smelter, silver city utah, tintic mountains, environmental science, mining and the environment, environmental impact of mining, hazards of mining, lead contamination, environmental protection agency, epa, tailings pile, leaching, cyanide, jesse knight, knight smelter, abandoned mines, old mines, unsafe mines, smelting ore on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On my visit to the area around Eureka, Utah last Friday, June 4, I not only wanted to visit Mammoth and Silver City, but to also document the efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up the town. I had traveled through Eureka a few days before on Memorial Day and noticed that the [...]
Exploring Dividend and Mammoth
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged mining, tintic mining district, eureka utah, silver mine, silver ore, utah mining, mammoth utah, dividend utah, silver city utah, burgin utah, tintic mountains, mine processing plant, mines, utah mines on June 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The last few weeks I’ve had to neglect the Elements Unearthed project in order to finish a client video that had a tight deadline. It was uploaded to YouTube Thursday night, so I now have a little bit of a breather before the next project and am back at work on Part 2 of the [...]
