Mining Cave Project

Our Hahn’s Peak exploration has taken our students to explore the world of caves, mining, excavating and even archeology! We have designed our own mining cave and it is located next to the outside door if you would like to check it out!  There are even architectural blue prints the students came up with (right next to the cave.) Now students can use the mining cave as a quiet place to read a book.  Additionally, The Pioneer Museum from Steamboat Springs provided us with their Archeology Kit; were we got to explore what it would be like to be an archeologist. Looking forward to see where this project can take us!

Some of the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines (ages 3-5) that were worked on throughout this activity include:

1. Book Appreciation and Knowladge: The interest in books and their characteristics, and the ability to understand, and get meaning from stories and informaation from books and other texts.

2. Early writting: the familiarity with writing implements, conventions, and emerging skills to communicate through written representation, symbols and letters.

3. Reasoning and problem solving; the ability to recognize, understand, and analyuze a problem and draw knowladge or experience to seek solutions to a problem.