Oil and Feathers Don't Mix

Introduce little ones to the well-known concept that oil and water don't mix, but do it in such a way that they will have a colorful reminder to take home. While this is printed as a home demonstration, it would make a fabulous in-class...

In this oil spill instructional activity, learners examine a 4-page article regarding basic facts about oil spills and toxicity of oil.

Middle schoolers study the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill while evaluating oil spill clean up activities. They discover the long term impact can have on an ecosystem by completing this experiment.

In this recognizing hazardous waste worksheet, students observe hazard signs, read informational passages, and unscramble the words to identify hazardous waste products. Students unscramble 4 words.

Middle schoolers conduct a simple experiment demonstrating the variable densities of corn syrup, water, glycerin, and vegetable oil. They examine cleanup methods used in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Pupils discover the difficulties of removing an oil spill from the environment. In groups, they put drops of oil into bowls of water and then try to remove it with various tools, such as spoons, eyedroppers, and paper. They discuss the...

Students explore the development of paint and paintings during the Renaissance. In a science lab, they reproduce the properties of egg in tempera paint and compare and contrast egg tempera paintings to oil paintings. Through...

Students experiment to determine what happens in an oil spill and during different clean up methods. They investigate how they can take responsibility for the environment.

Students develop a list of actions they could perform that would protect our water resources from pollution. They formulate hypotheses, conduct experiments and draw conclusions about actual pollutants found in our water supply.

Albrecht Durer created a highly textured stamp or print of a rhinoceros. To better understand which animals are near extinction, upper graders create similar prints of endangered animals they've researched. The six-day instructional...