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Basic Properties of Oil
Lesson Overview
Oil is an important compound with unique characteristics that make it both useful to humans and dangerous.
Objectives
- Students will understand that ...
Basic Properties of Oil Worksheet
Supporting material for Basic Properties of Oil lesson.
...Bouncing Polymers
Lesson Overview
It is challenging to safely construct, operate, and navigate an oil tanker.
- Objectives
Students will build an oil tanker using design requirements. ...
Bouncy Ball Data Sheet
Supporting material for Bouncing Polymers lesson.
...Build an Oil Tanker
Lesson Overview
It is challenging to safely construct, operate, and navigate an oil tanker.
Objectives
- Students will build an oil tanker using design requirements. ...
Change Makers
Supporting material for Environmental Change Makers lesson.
...Cleaner Harbor
Lesson Overview
Preventing and cleaning up small amounts of pollution can make a difference for animals, people, and ecosystems.
Objectives
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- Students will identify ...
Community Meeting
Lesson Overview
Many important parts of ecosystems, economies, and communities could be changed by an oil spill.
Objectives
- Students will analyze and formulate opinions ...
Community Meeting Scenario Cards
Supporting material for Community Meeting lesson.
...Critter Clean Up
Lesson Overview
It is difficult and expensive to clean oiled animals.
Objectives
- Students will identify ways oil spill can adversely affect animals.
- Students will ...
Decomposer Tag
Overview
Producers, consumers, and decomposers all play important roles in ecosystems.
Objectives
- Students will be able to describe the roles of producers, consumers, and ...
Energy Science Fair
Lesson Overview
There are many innovations yet to be developed in the fields of energy and conservation.
Objectives
Students will follow the scientific process.
Students ...
Energy Science Fair Project- Experiment
Supporting material for Energy Science Fair lesson.
...Energy Science Fair Project- Engineering
Supporting material for Energy Science Fair lesson.
...Environmental Change Makers
Lesson Overview
We can all be stewards of the environment and ecosystems that support us.
Objectives
- Students will identify and analyze an environmental problem. ...
Future Home Design
Overview
There are many innovative ways to design a building that needs less energy, generates less waste, and supports a healthy way of life.
Objectives
...Habitat Model
Overview
All living organisms need habitat to survive.
Objectives
- Students will know that a habitat is a natural home.
- Students will construct a habitat ...
Home and School Energy Audits
Lesson Overview
There are many opportunities to conserve energy at home and school.
Objectives
- Students will understand how daily routines can use significant amounts ...
How Big is a Tanker
Overview
We need creative solutions to the challenge of safely transporting oil around the world.
Objectives
- Students will form an opinion about double-hull tanker ...
Human Significance of the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Lesson Overview
A variety of different people are involved in oil spill response, clean up, and recovery of human and natural communities. People involved in ...
Human-Ecosystem Calendar
Lesson Overview
Generations of humans living along the coast are dependent upon healthy ecosystems.
Objectives
- Students will identify their personal use of ...
ICC Data Sheet
Incident Command Scenario
Lesson Overview
The varied participants and constantly changing conditions make it incredibly challenging to clean up and contain an oil spill.
Objectives
- Students will ...
Incident Command Scenario Cards
Supporting material for Incident Command Scenario lesson.
...Intertidal Exploration
Lesson Overview
Although life in the intertidal zone is challenging, a diverse range of invertebrates and algae have adapted to live there.
Objectives
- Students ...
Invent an Invertebrate
Lesson Overview
Animals and plants have unique adaptations to survive in the intertidal zone.
Objectives
- Students will understand the challenges of surviving in the ...
Local Plant Studies
Lesson Overview
It is important to use all of your senses when observing the natural world. Observing plant structures can help us to understand how ...
Marine Debris Clean Up
Lesson Overview
Preventing and cleaning up marine debris is critical to the health of coastal and marine ecosystems.
Objectives
- Students will gather, identify, and ...
Meet A Tree
Lesson Overview
It is important to use all of your senses when observing the natural world.
Objectives
- Students will use senses other ...
Microhike
Lesson Overview
You can find living things of all sizes if you look closely.
Objectives
- Students will build a miniature nature trail to highlight ...
Mock Senate
Lesson Overview
Important legislation surrounding oil spill prevention and restoration and energy development and conservation must go through a rigorous process.
Objectives
- Students will ...
Mock Senate Guidelines
Supporting material for Mock Senate lesson.
...Mock Senate- Example of a Bill
Supporting material for Mock Senate lesson.
...Model Oil Pipeline
Overview
It is challenging to construct a pipeline to safely transport oil over rugged terrain.
Objectives
- Students will construct a working model of an ...
Model Oil Pipeline Rubric
Supporting material for Model Oil Pipeline lesson.
...Oh Moose
Overview
Animals need food, water, and shelter to survive.
Objectives
- Students will be able to name three habitat necessities for animal survival: food, water, ...
Oil Distillation
Lesson Overview
Crude oil is composed of many fractions that can be used for different purposes.
Objectives
- Students will understand that crude oil is ...
Oil Spill in a Pan
Lesson Overview
It is difficult and expensive to contain and clean up an oil spill.
Objectives
- Students will experiment with way to contain and ...
Oil Spill in a Pan Clean Up Costs
Supporting material for Oil Spill in a Pan lesson.
...Oil Spill in a Pan Clean Up Worksheet
Supporting material for Oil Spill in a Pan lesson.
...Oil Viscosity Races
Lesson Overview
Viscosity is an important characteristic of petroleum products that determines their uses.
Objectives
- Students will measure the relative viscosity of different petroleum ...
Oil Viscosity Races Data Sheet
Supporting material for Oil Viscosity Races lesson.
...Oil’s Wandering Paths: ROV Ocean Surface Challenge
Lesson Overview
It is challenging to clean up oil once it has been spilled.
Objectives
- Students will work cooperatively to design and build an ...
Oily Experiments
Lesson Overview
Oil has unique characteristics that make it both useful for people and dangerous to ecosystems.
Objectives
- Students will examine the basic characteristics ...
Popcorn Spill
Lesson overview
Winds and currents spread oil from a spill very quickly, making it difficult to contain and clean up.
Objectives
- Students will estimate ...
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 ...
Priorities for Protection
Lesson Overview
Many important parts of ecosystems, economies, and communities could be changed by an oil spill.
Objectives
- Students will understand maps used in ...
ROV Design and Oil Spill Response Slides
Supporting material for Oil’s Wandering Paths: ROV Ocean Surface Challenge lesson.
...ROV Design And Oil Spill Response Worksheet
Supporting material for Oil’s Wandering Paths: ROV Ocean Surface Challenge lesson.
...ROV Design Points to Ponder
Supporting material for Oil’s Wandering Paths: ROV Ocean Surface Challenge lesson.
...ROV Frame Examples
Supporting material for Oil’s Wandering Paths: ROV Ocean Surface Challenge lesson.
...ROV Water Challenge Diagram
Supporting material for Oil’s Wandering Paths: ROV Ocean Surface Challenge lesson.
...ROV Water Challenge Scorecard
Supporting material for Oil’s Wandering Paths: ROV Ocean Surface Challenge lesson.
...School Energy Audit
Worksheet that accompanies Home and School Energy Audit lesson.
...Sense Test
Lesson Overview
All five human senses are important in observing nature.
Objectives
- Students will use senses other than sight to observe natural objects.
- Students ...
Settling Tube
Lesson Overview
Oil is a non-renewable resource that comes from plankton (and other plants and animals) that have been transformed over millions of years of ...
Sheen-Oil-Mousse: Three Fractions Of Spilled Oil
Lesson Overview
Oil undergoes changes in marine ecosystems.
Objectives
- Students will examine the basic characteristics of oil.
- Students will identify the three fractions of ...
Solo Observation Spot
Lesson Overview
We can learn a lot about our local ecosystems by observing one spot over time.
Objectives
- Students will use many senses observe ...
Sound Mapping
Lesson Overview
Paying attention to sounds can help us understand how ecosystems function.
Objectives
- Students will listen for five minutes in a semi-isolated space ...
Sprouting
Lesson Overview
Energy from the sun is stored in plants.
Objectives
- Students will understand that energy from sun causes plants to grow.
- Students will ...
Stake a Claim
Lesson Overview
Animals need food, water, and shelter to survive.
Objectives
Students will be able to name three habitat necessities for animal survival: food, water, ...
Stake a Claim Animal Cards
Supporting materials for Stake a Claim lesson.
...Sun Tea
Lesson Overview
The sun is a very important source of energy.
Objectives
- Students will understand the importance of the sun as an energy source. ...
Web Of Life
Lesson Overview
All parts of an ecosystem are connected and interdependent.
Objectives
- Students will understand that living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) ...
Where Does all that Oil Go?
Activity to discuss uses of oil in society.
...Wildlife and Oil Worksheet
Worksheet for Wildlife Field Guide
...Wildlife Field Guide
Lesson Overview
A variety of animals rely on healthy habitats.
Objectives
- Students will identify several species of animals in Southcentral Alaska or their local ...