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.
TES Global
Blendspace: Questioning Nonfiction Text Oil Spills
An eight-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while improving informational text skills through the topic of oil spills. The print materials have directed exercises for text analysis by students.
Other
Prince Wm. Sound Rcac: Alaska Oil Spill Curriculum [Pdf]
This is an extensive 333-page resource of lesson ideas for all grade levels. The lessons are attractively presented and the appendices contain extensive lists of additional resources, as well as articles and puzzles. The curriculum...
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Oil Spills
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how oil spills occur and how they can be cleaned up.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Oil Spill Clean Up [Pdf]
In this lesson plan students experiment with cleaning up an oil spill. This lesson begins with students learning about the effects of oil spills on the natural environment. Then students will explore the most effective way to clean up an...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigate Effects of an Oil Spill
This lab is designed so that students will understand the effects of oil spills on plants, animals, and the environment and investigate clean up methods through a simulated oil spill. They will understand the risks associated with...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Effects of Oil Spills on Birds
To learn about the devastating effects of oil spills, learners use magnifying lenses to examine feathers, and name and describe characteristics of the feathers.
NOAA
Noaa: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council [Pdf]
This site provides information about the impacts of the oil spill, the injury and recovery of fish, wildlife and people of the spill region, and information about ongoing restoration and research activities. Has a great link to other...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Ocean Oil: Deepwater Horizon Disaster
A collection of articles on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that happened on April 20, 2010. It was caused by an offshore explosion on an oil platform fifty miles southeast of the Mississippi River delta.
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...
Scientific American
Scientific American: Oil Spills Leave Lasting Mark
This article, published by Scientific American (November 13, 2002), explores the lasting effect of oil spills on the environment.
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.
BBC
Bbc: Bp Oil Disaster
Up to the minute news on the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010. The BBC reports on the impact on the environment and provides an interactive guide to stopping the leak itself. In addition, find maps that clearly define the...
NOAA
Noaa: Prince William's Oily Mess: A Tale of Recovery
Compilation of reports on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill includes information on the remaining impact of the spill, the ecosystem in transition, lessons learned and an oil spill trajectory model.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Oil on the Ocean
Students learn about oil spills and their environmental and economic effects. They experience the steps of the engineering design process as they brainstorm potential methods for oil spill clean-up, and then design, build, and re-design...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Ocean Oil: Offshore Petroleum
A collection of articles on offshore oil. Some of the topics covered include the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, oil exploration and oil reserves, oil drilling, and the history of oil and gas.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Ocean Oil: Coastal Ecosystems
A collection of articles, video, and some teaching guides on issues related to coastal ecosystems. Includes environmental issues, e.g., oil spills, and different types of ecosystems, e.g., mangroves and coastal grasslands.
BBC
Bbc News: What Is a 'Top Kill'?
As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico officially becomes America's largest oil disaster, a major procedure, known as 'top kill', is being tried to stop the flow of oil. Details of the procedure, graphics, and video clips are included.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Resources on the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Continuing information on the Gulf of Oil spill from Auburn University includes updates on the spill's impact. Auburn University experts have supplied their field of specialization and their emails. Experts with knowledge in...
Other
Australian Maritime Safety Authority:experiment Demonstrating Oil Bioremediation
An experiment to investigate how bacteria causes oil to degrade over time, a process that helps the ocean slowly recover from an oil spill.
Curated OER
Oil price.net: Gulf Oil Spill: The Aftermath
Comments on the Gulf Oil Spill provide author's thoughts on the chemical dispersants being used. Are these dispersants helping? Do they cause more of a threat than the oil itself? What will the impact be on human and wildlife? Also,...
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