National Geographic
National Geographic: Evaluating Natural Gas
In this lesson, students examines the benefits and the environmental risks of extracting natural gas from shale. Includes handouts, a vocabulary list with definitions, and an interactive on how gas is extracted from shale.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Natural Gas: A Cleaner Energy Solution?
For this activity, students read informational text on natural gas and compare it to other fossil fuels for its greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact. They then prepare a pro or con position on whether natural gas is good...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Natural Gas: Liquefied Natural Gas
Article discussing what liquefied natural gas is, the liquefaction process, its history, how it is transported and stored, and safety considerations. (Published: September 13, 2011)
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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: The Energy Report: Natural Gas [Pdf]
Chapter 5 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It looks at natural gas, its history, and its uses. The economic impact of the natural gas industry in Texas is described, consumption, production, distribution through pipelines,...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Chemical Engineering: Natural Gas Processing
Explains the composition of natural gas and what is required to make it market-ready, types of reservoirs, and what happens in a natural gas processing plant. Includes a diagram showing the whole process. (Published: September 12, 2011)
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Natural Gas
Explains what natural gas is, how it is formed, its composition, measurement terminology, how companies locate and extract it, processing, how it is transported and stored, uses, and safety considerations. (Published: September 20, 2011)
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American Gas Association: Learn About Natural Gas
Learn about natural gas including topics such as statistics on natural gas usage in the United States and little-known facts about this energy source.
US Department of Energy
Department of Energy: Natural Gas
Natural gas is an abundant resource across the United States, and new discoveries and extraction methods have led to a dramatic rise in shale gas development -- making America the world's leading natural gas producer. We invest in...
Read Works
Read Works: Engineering and Natural Gas
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about an engineer named Matt who works to build pipes for natural gas in California. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Natural Gas Power
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of natural gas' creation, usage, and effects.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Natural Gas Power
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of natural gas' creation, usage, and effects.
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Natural Gas
Learn how natural gas forms, how scientists find it beneath the Earth's surface, and how it is produced, stored, and transported.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Natural Gas: An Energy Resource [Pdf]
"Natural Gas: An Energy Resource" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about natural gas, its uses, and how it gets to homes. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Natural Gas: An Energy Resource [Pdf]
"Natural Gas: An Energy Resource" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about how natural gas is located, drilled for, and sent through pipelines throughout the country to people's homes. It is followed by questions which require...
US Department of Energy
Natural Gas: Fueling the Blue Flame
Natural gas is a colorless and odorless fossil fuel that is used in almost half the homes for heat. Learn more about this non-renewable energy resource.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Natural Gas: Background
A resource page on natural gas. Learn what natural gas is, how it used, how it is formed, how it is drilled, processed, and transported, and advantages and disadvantages.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Oil and Natural Gas Formation
Students will learn that oil and natural gas taken from the earth's crust today originated as small plants and animals that lived in the ocean millions of years ago.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Natural Gas Formation
In this investigation, students make a simple model of how gasses can form from decaying material. They will also explore the effects of temperature on gas formation.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Extracting Gas From Shale
This lesson examines how geologists locate deposits of natural gas in deep shale formations, and the process of hydraulic fracturing that is used to extract it. Includes handouts, a vocabulary list with definitions, and an interactive on...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies: Our Energy Sources: Natural Gas
Energy production from natural gas is less destructive to the environment than energy produced from coal, but it is still produced from fossil fuels. While advances have been made in reducing its detrimental effects, our resources are...
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Petroleum Oil and Natural Gas
Learn the history of the world's use of the fossil fuels oil and natural gas for usable energy.
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Mackenzie Gas Project: About Natural Gas
This gives a brief explanation of what natural gas is and tells how it is formed, how we harness it and how much it takes to heat a home or an urban area.
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