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/Home/Professional Development/Teaching Resources/Lesson Plans/Social Studies/History/U.S. State History/Kentucky Mammoth Cave: Its Explorers, Miners, Archeologists, and Visitors Votes:0 Mammoth Cave: Its Explorers, Miners, Archeologists, and Visitors (Mammoth Cave National Park) A long the banks of the winding Green River, newly fallen leaves rustle as a man walks from his camp toward the high bluffs. Pausing to gaze back into the deep river valley and then upward into the sunlight sparkling on the crimson and golden leaves still clinging to their summer hosts, he thinks about the great darkness that lies just ahead beneath the forest floor. He has journeyed there many times since he was a young man. Around campfires he often listened to the stories of the old people who journeyed into the darkness. Now he himself is old. Perhaps this winter he will tell his own tales about the great cave that opens directly beneath his feet. The mysterious darkness of Mammoth Cave in sou Read More Go to Site Mining Coal Votes:0 Mining Coal .style1 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } .style2 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; } Click here for a printable version Title: Mining Coal - Kentucky Level: Primary - Intermediate ( 1 - 5 ) Time : Varies according to which activity is used KERA Goals: 1.2, 1.4, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, and 6.1 Objective : Students will gain and demonstrate knowledge of the process used in mining coal Background Information: What is coal mining? Mining is the process of getting the coal out of the ground. How is coal mined? Coal is mined by surface mining or underground mining. What kind of mines are in Kentucky? Kentucky has both surface and underground mines. Surface mining is used when a coal seam is located close to the surface. Heavy equipment is used to cl Read More Go to Site The Battle of Mill Springs: The Civil War Divides a Border State Votes:0 The Battle of Mill Springs: The Civil War Divides a Border State (American Battlefield Protection Program, NPS) I t was just after midnight on January 19, 1862, when Confederate troops started towards the Union army camped near the Kentucky hamlet of Logan's Cross Roads. Rain, sleet and fog filled the night, creating conditions so miserable that a Union soldier later noted, "If we had known...[the Confederates had] turned out of their comfortable tents and dry blankets and for the next six weary hours were sloshing along in the mud and storm and darkness, we could have much enjoyed the contemplation of their physical and spiritual condition. It was always some comfort to the soldier on a night such as this to think that his enemy over there, was at least as cold and wretched as he himself Read More Go to Site

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