Preparation & Prevention: ROV Monitoring Challenge

Lesson Overview

ROVs with video capability can be used to monitor the environment and perform inspections to prevent oil spills.

Objectives

• Students will learn ways that ROVs can be used to perform inspections to prevent oil spills.
• Students will learn ways that ROVs can be used to collect ecological data to establish baselines before a spill and/or the damage done after a spill.
• Students will demonstrate how to operate equipment similar to real-life research and inspection equipment.

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Subject: Engineering and Technology, Environmental Science, ROV, Earth and Space Science, Oil Spill Response
Concept: Scale Proportion and Quantity
Type: Classroom, Outdoors or Field Trip, Suitable for Homeschool
Standard: MS-ESS3-3
Duration: >120 Minutes