Look around you. Where did all of the “stuff” you use every day
come from? Are you sitting on a plastic chair? Do you have rock
countertops in your kitchen and bathrooms? Do you use pencils or
powder? Almost everything we use every day comes from our
natural resources, and many of those natural resources are
geological – they come from under the surface of the earth.
Rocks, minerals, water, oil and gas are all geological resources
that we depend on every day. Where do we get the water and the
oil that we pump up from underground? Is it in pools and rivers
running underground? Or is it trapped somewhere else? Let’s find
out! Our favorite links for information on Natural Resources: We
have had two very busy months to start out 2009. We visited all
of the 3rd graders at Mattawan Later Elementary School - once to
talk about Michigan Geology and Natural Resources and once to
talk about Climate Change. We also visited the 3rd grade Visions
class at Plainwell's Starr Elementary to explore Michigan
Geology and we wil