Unit Plan
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Natural Gas: An Energy Resource [Pdf] Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Natural Gas: An Energy Resource [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"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...
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Handout
American Geosciences Institute: Natural Gas: Background Handout
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Natural Gas: Background

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Serc: Question of the Day: Anwr Drilling Policy Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Question of the Day: Anwr Drilling Policy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will examine two policy positions regarding oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The students also determine their viewpoint on the issue and quantitatively analyze the cases for oil drilling in the ANWR...
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Activity
Read Works: Coastal Drilling in Sunny California Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Coastal Drilling in Sunny California

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about off-shore drilling and the need for alternate energy sources. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Graphic
Natural Gas Graphic
Curated OER

Natural Gas

For Students Pre-K - 1st
natural gas
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Interactive
As the Drill Bit Turns Interactive
The Franklin Institute

As the Drill Bit Turns

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is the world running out of gas? Teach your students how their lives impact the depletion of non-renewable resources, specifically oil, and how the depletion of those resources will effect the future.
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Interactive
Dangers of Fracking: What Goes in and Out of Hydraulic Fracturing Interactive
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Dangers of Fracking: What Goes in and Out of Hydraulic Fracturing

For Students 9th - 10th
Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks to release natural gas inside.
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