TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Oil Spill Solutions
In a lesson to teach young scholars about the field of environmental engineering, they examine an oil spill, then design a system to contain the oil and extract it from the water.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Oil Spills
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Examines the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and its impact.
NOAA
Noaa: Gulf Oil Spill Educational Resources
NOAA provides educational resources regarding the Gulf of Mexico oil spill such as imagery, animations, videos, lessons, activities, real world data, trajectory maps, and background information. Lessons such as Cleaning Oiled Feathers...
Learning to Give
Learning to Give: Oil Changes Everything
This unit is a collection of four lessons that lead students from learning about oil spills and the impact human activities have on the environment and wildlife, to actively campaigning for laws to protect wildlife from oil spills and...
Other
Cynthia Cudaback: Self Contained Gulf Oil Spill Kit [Pdf]
Here is a kit that you can create to help understand the impact of an oil spill and the logistics of the clean-up effort. Unfortunately, real-life oil spills are not quite as easy to clean up.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Oil Spill Cleanup Job
After flooding and oil contamination from a local refinery destroyed much of a nearby town, a contractor works hard to continue the oil spill cleanup job.