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Teach Engineering: Oil on the Ocean

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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 oil booms to prevent the spread of oil spills. During a reflective session after cleaning up their oil booms, students come up with ideas on how to reduce oil consumption to prevent future oil spills.

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Concepts
pollution, water, stem
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Additional Tags
boom, environmental clean-up, model, bp, deepwater horizon, generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural earth processes on humans., integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, oil spill, environmental engineering projects
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Practice