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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Oil Spill: Exxon Valdez, 1989

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA follows the clean-up effort after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska. Also featured is a marsh where an oil spill occurred 20 years earlier; analysis suggests that environmental...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Oil Contamination Affects Food Web

For Students 9th - 10th
This video adapted from KTOO explores the impact of oil contamination on the herring population of Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1999, 10 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.3m 03s
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Instructional Video
California Academy of Sciences

Ca Academy of Sciences: Exxon Valdez Xprize

For Students 3rd - 8th
This video was produced by youth from the Chabot Space and Science Center's Galaxy Explorers. It is the winning video from the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge Video Contest sponsored by Wendy Schmidt, Blue Planet Water Solutions...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: How Big Is the Oil Spill?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video adapted from 'Need to Know,' artist Steve Brodner uses simple drawings to compare the size of the 2010 BP oil spill to more familiar things, like a football field, a shopping mall, the state of Texas, and Earth's moon....
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Instructional Video
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Blossoms: How Does Biotechnology Help Clean Up the Environment?

For Students 9th - 10th
The objective of this lesson is to introduce students to one of the most important issues affecting human life and health in the 21st century, the application of modern biotechnology to the problems of environmental pollution. [22:51]...
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Instructional Video
California Academy of Sciences

Ca Academy of Sciences: Bio Inspiration: Hair Mats

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hairdresser Phil McCrory had an idea twenty years ago while watching news footage of the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Human hair absorbs oil naturally, why not in large oil spills? Hair mats and hair booms were created and...

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