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A chemistry lab for 4^th-8^th grade students to compare types of oil to understand the properties, uses, and dangers.

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A chemistry lab for 7^th-12^th grade students to create four different polymers and understand their uses.

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• Students will build an oil ...

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8^th-12^th grade students design and construct an oil tanker that can safely navigate an obstacle course.

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6^th-12^th grade students investigate their local harbor, school parking lot, or other local area to identify pollution and learn about clean up.

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6^th-12^th grade students engage in a mock community meeting about an oil spill scenario.

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• Students will analyze and formulate opinions about ...

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It is difficult and expensive to clean oiled animals.

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• Students will identify ways oil spill can adversely affect animals.
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A game to introduce 4^th-8^th grade students to three types of organisms: producers, consumers, and decomposers.

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There are many innovations yet to be developed in the fields of energy and conservation.

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Students will follow the scientific process.

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6^th-10^th grade students identify, analyze, and create a plan to address an environmental problem.

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• Students will identify and analyze an environmental ...

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K-6^th grade students closely observe items found in nature.

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• Students will recognize that there is a wide variety of things that ...

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4^th-8^th grade students design themselves a future home including ways to conserve energy and minimize waste.

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• Students will identify ways to ...

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This is a short explainer activity for a booth or similar informal education/outreach venue to share about marine invasive species monitoring and specifically ...

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2^nd-5^th grade students construct habitat models including items animals need to live.

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• Students will know that a habitat ...

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4^th-8^th grade students examine energy uses and conservation at home and at school (90 minutes or 2 class periods).

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We need creative solutions to the challenge of safely transporting oil around the world.

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• Students will form an opinion about double-hull ...

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5^th-12^th grade students explore the complex impact of an oil spill disaster on the local people and community. (2-4 class periods)

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4^th-12^th grade students learn about coastal Alaska Native ways of life and create their own seasonal calendar.

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7^th-12^th grade students participate in an oil spill scenario working together in response teams.

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• Students will work cooperatively in strike teams ...

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A lesson plan for a low tide field trip for 3^rd-12^th grade students to learn about intertidal zones, habitat, and ...

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Animals and plants have unique adaptations to survive in the intertidal zone.

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• Students will understand the challenges of surviving in the ...

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It is important to use all of your senses when observing the natural world. Observing plant structures can help us to understand how ...

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Preventing and cleaning up marine debris is critical to the health of coastal and marine ecosystems.

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• Students will gather, identify, and ...

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It is important to use all of your senses when observing the natural world.

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• Students will use senses other than sight ...

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You can find living things of all sizes if you look closely.

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• Students will build a miniature nature trail to highlight ...

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Important legislation surrounding oil spill prevention and restoration and energy development and conservation must go through a rigorous process.

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It is challenging to construct a pipeline to safely transport oil over rugged terrain.

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• Students will construct a working model of ...

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Animals need food, water, and shelter to survive.

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• Students will be able to name three habitat necessities for animal ...

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Crude oil is composed of many fractions that can be used for different purposes.

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• Students will understand that crude oil is ...

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It is difficult and expensive to contain and clean up an oil spill.

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• Students will experiment with way to ...

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Viscosity is an important characteristic of petroleum products that determines their uses.

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• Students will measure the relative viscosity of different petroleum ...

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It is challenging to clean up oil once it has been spilled.

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• Students will work cooperatively to design and build an ...

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Oil has unique characteristics that make it both useful for people and dangerous to ecosystems.

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Winds and currents spread oil from a spill very quickly, making it difficult to contain and clean up.

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

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Many important parts of ecosystems, economies, and communities could be changed by an oil spill.

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• Students will understand maps used in ...

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All five human senses are important in observing nature.

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• Students will use senses other than sight to observe natural objects.
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Oil is a non-renewable resource that comes from plankton (and other plants and animals) that have been transformed over millions of years of ...

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Oil undergoes changes in marine ecosystems.

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• Students will examine the basic characteristics of oil.
• Students will identify the three fractions of ...

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We can learn a lot about our local ecosystems by observing one spot over time.

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• Students will use many senses observe ...

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Paying attention to sounds can help us understand how ecosystems function.

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• Students will listen for five minutes in a semi-isolated space
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Energy from the sun is stored in plants.

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• Students will understand that energy from sun causes plants to grow.
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Animals need food, water, and shelter to survive.

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• Students will be able to name three habitat necessities for animal survival: food, ...

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The sun is a very important source of energy.

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• Students will understand the importance of the sun as an energy source.
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All parts of an ecosystem are connected and interdependent.

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• Students will understand that living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems ...

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A variety of animals rely on healthy habitats.

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• Students will identify several species of animals in Southcentral Alaska or their ...

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Oil spills can have a wide variety of effects on wildlife.

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• Students will identify major habitats of south coastal ...