Slick Moves

To drill or to conserve? This question is the foundation of the political cartoons up for critical analysis in this well-composed worksheet. Learners will analyze two cartoons guided by background information and excellent questions for...

For this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about oil drilling and respond to 3 talking point questions.

View some remarkable photos of the beautiful Arctic National Wildlife Refuge taken by artist and environmentalist, Subhankar Banerjee.

The continuing debate between oil drilling and wilderness preservation rages on. Questions concerning the impact to the land and animals are discussed in this site.

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...

Students examine the Bush Administration's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from varying points of view. They work in small groups in order to perform their research, but they compose individual journal writes...

This lesson intends to increase students' knowledge of a variety of topics through a real world environmental topic.

Over three decades, rising temperatures have cut the frozen season in half in Alaska. Oil-prospecting convoys in search of new deposits are allowed to crisscross the fragile tundra only when it is snowy and solid. Find out about the...

Students recount their knowledge of natural resources and articulate their understanding of the multi- faceted debate that surrounds drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They then examine the complexity of drilling in the...

Young scholars investigate oil's changing role in human history. They view a PBS documentary, conduct Internet research, complete a research matrix, and write an essay on whether they support an expansion of oil drilling in the Arctic...