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The Great Cookie Mining Challenge

Students simulate mining by extracting chocolate chips from cookies while managing land, tool, cleanup, and environmental costs.

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Students simulate mining by extracting chocolate chips from cookies while managing land, tool, cleanup, and environmental costs. They calculate expenses, revenue, profit or loss, assess environmental damage, and reflect on real-world mining practices.

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  • Students will define mining, resources, revenue, profit, loss, and environmental restoration.
  • Students will calculate expenses, revenue, and profit or loss.
  • Students will evaluate environmental impacts of resource extraction.
  • Students will propose ways to reduce environmental damage.