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Activities for grade levels 9-12

1. Mapping the Visitors
2. Rinker's Dinner
3. Nevada's Boomtown: A Monologue
4. Who's in Charge Here?
5. Mining Ads
6. Scavenger Hunt
7. Come On Down…
8. Danger, Danger
9. Muster the Clusters
10. Wanna Work Here?
11. The End of the Road
12. Can You Design a Plot?
13. Plotting the Earth
14. A Safe Mine
15. The Lay of the Land
16. Where to Lay Your Head
17. Managing the Holdings
18. Being Civically Minded: Women's Volunteer Groups
19. Comical History
20. Earth's Veins
21. Get Your Papers Here!
22. What's Your Angle?
23. Inflation! Inflation! Inflation!
24. On the Ball?
25. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Boys and Girls
26. And Now for a Commercial Break

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