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 3D star model, creative students, creativity, educational philosophy, hands-on, mars 3D terrains, montessori, pbl, project-based learning, walden school on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Beryllium Part 2 Video is Done
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged bertrandite, beryl, beryllia, beryllium, beryllium alloys, beryllium ceramics, beryllium safety, brush engineered materials, brush resources, brush wellman, cbd, chemical engineering, chronic beryllium disease, counter-current decantation, delta utah, elmore ohio, mining, periodic table, refining ore, solvent extraction, spor mountains, topaz mountain, utah mines 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 abandoned mines, cyanide, environmental impact of mining, environmental protection agency, environmental science, epa, eureka utah, hazards of mining, jesse knight, knight smelter, leaching, lead contamination, mine reclamation, mining, mining and the environment, old mines, silver city utah, silver ore, smelter, smelting ore, superfund site, tailings pile, tintic mining district, tintic mountains, unsafe mines on June 9, 2010 | 1 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 burgin utah, dividend utah, eureka utah, mammoth utah, mine processing plant, mines, mining, silver city utah, silver mine, silver ore, tintic mining district, tintic mountains, utah mines, utah mining 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 [...]
