This is the second half of my trip to Cripple Creek, Colorado, over the Labor Day weekend. As I described in my last post, we traveled to Cripple Creek on Friday, Sept. 4, 2010 and arrived late at night. The next day, I started out by taking a guided tour of the Mollie Kathleen gold [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Cripple Creek Colorado
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged cripple creek colorado, gold, gold mine, gold mining, independence mine, mining, portland mine, stratton, victor colorado, winfield scott stratton on September 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged cripple creek, float, gold, gold mine, gold mining, gold ore, gold vein, hard rock mining, headframe, high grading, mollie kathleen, mucker, skip, stope, vug on September 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Over Labor Day weekend I traveled with my family to Denver to visit my brother-in-law’s family. On the way, we stopped off at Cripple Creek, Colorado, to tour the gold mining district. I’ve been near there twice before but never took the chance to stop and visit, so this time I determined to get there [...]
Starting Up at Walden School
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged chemistry projects, expeditionary learning, montessori, pbl, project-based learning, student created content, students as teachers, uintah mountains, uintahs, walden school of liberal arts on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The past month has been crazy busy as I’ve prepared for my new teaching job at Walden School of Liberal Arts in Provo, Utah. I had intended on writing at least six blog posts in August and interviewing at least one person, but didn’t do any of it; instead, I’ve been writing curricula, lesson plans, [...]
