Mining minerals from seawater
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| Link to Resource: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZk_BQm_vZU |
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| Resource Type: | Teaching Media; Videos or Animations |
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| Language: | English |
| Format: | video |
| Organization: | TED-Ed |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Summary: | The world needs clean water, and more and more, we're pulling it from the oceans, desalinating it, and drinking it. But what to do with the salty brine left behind? In this intriguing short talk, TED Fellow Damian Palin proposes an idea: Mine it for other minerals we need, with the help of some collaborative metal-munching bacteria. |
| Earth Science Big Ideas: | Big Idea 5; Big Idea 7 |
| NGSS Discplinary Core Ideas: | ESS3.A |
| NGSS Performance Expectations: | HS-ESS3-1; HS-ESS3-2; MS-ESS3-1 |
| NGSS Science and Engineering Practices: | Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering); Engaging in argument from evidence |
| NGSS Crosscutting Concepts: | Cause and effect: Mechanism and explanation |
| Subjects: | 6-8; 9-12; high school; middle school; minerals; mining; natural resources; oceans; rocks; salt; video |
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