PBS
Pbs Kids: The Gulf Coast Oil Disaster
Why does the oil spill in the Golf of Mexico matter? What can you do? These are two of the topics discussed in the PBS Kds blog "The It's My Life Blog". (3 May 2010)
BBC
Bbc News: What Is a 'Top Kill'?
As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico officially becomes America's largest oil disaster, a major procedure, known as 'top kill', is being tried to stop the flow of oil. Details of the procedure, graphics, and video clips are included.
Science Daily
Science Daily: Caution Required for Gulf Oil Spill Clean Up
A bioremediation expert cautions against the concentration of detergents and other chemicals used to clean up oil spills. The clean-up can be a nightmare of its own when toxic agents are used.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Resources on the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Continuing information on the Gulf of Oil spill from Auburn University includes updates on the spill's impact. Auburn University experts have supplied their field of specialization and their emails. Experts with knowledge in...
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Slick Sea Spills
Students conduct an experiment to examine what happens when oil is spilled in water, and when it comes into contact with a feather. This could be followed by student research into large oil spills.
Other
Australian Maritime Safety Authority:experiment Demonstrating Oil Bioremediation
An experiment to investigate how bacteria causes oil to degrade over time, a process that helps the ocean slowly recover from an oil spill.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Teaching With the News: The Gulf Oil Disaster
Multi-media lesson plan includes a video, PowerPoint, and handouts from which students explore the issues raised by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and interpret political cartoons and the cartoonist's message.
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Human Impact: Oil Consumption
Lesson plan allows students to practice their math skills by calculating how many barrels of oil they and their families consume.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Exploring Oil Seeps
How does oil seep naturally from beneath layers of rock to the surface of the ocean?
NOAA
Noaa: Environmental Restoration
Your questions answered about environmental restoration after chemical accidents. A large section is dedicated to oil spills and how they contaminate the earth. Great information.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Pictures to Inspire Your Descriptive Writing [Pdf]
This is a four-page PDF of six photos to inspire descriptive writing: Children playing on a slide in Brazil, Factory Sunset, Family Dinner, Oil Spill, Red Palace Room, and War Prayer. A list of picture credits with web links is provided...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Crude Oil and Gas Mileage
For this task, students write expressions that describe the relationship between quantities. The task looks at the amount of gas produced by a given number of barrels of crude oil, the number of miles a vehicle can drive on a quantity of...
Curated OER
Oil price.net: Gulf Oil Spill: The Aftermath
Comments on the Gulf Oil Spill provide author's thoughts on the chemical dispersants being used. Are these dispersants helping? Do they cause more of a threat than the oil itself? What will the impact be on human and wildlife? Also,...
Curated OER
Pbs News Hour Extra: Gulf Oil Spill Could Be Most Damaging in History
Discussed is the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the attempts to clean up the oil, animals and industries threatened, policies questioned and a comparison made to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Includes instructional resources. (4 May...
Curated OER
The New York Times: The Learning Network: The Gulf Oil Spill in the Classroom
The Deepwater Horizon fire in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Oil Spill Cleanup Job
After flooding and oil contamination from a local refinery destroyed much of a nearby town, a contractor works hard to continue the oil spill cleanup job.
Curated OER
Science Image: Oil Spill
This article, published by Scientific American (November 13, 2002), explores the lasting effect of oil spills on the environment.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sugar Spill!
In this activity, students act as environmental engineers involved with the clean up of a toxic spill. Using bioremediation as the process, students select which bacteria they will use to eat up the pollutant spilled. Students learn how...
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Oil Spills
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Oil Spills."
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Fed.: Restoring the Gulf
The Wildlife Federation has committed itself to saving the wildlife and habitat of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill area. They report on how many animals have been reported dead, how many are oiled but alive and how many cleaned and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Can We Clean the Sea?
Oil spills are real disasters that plague our oceans every day. This lesson will offer learners a chance to work in teams to develop possible solutions to ways to clean up oil spills.
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska State Museum: Alaska Kelp Community
Discover the ecological relationships of six different organisms living in the Alaskan kelp community. The site also contains an interactive map showing the time line for the spread of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Other
Water Pollution
Read about the different types of water pollution and the harm it can cause. Learn about oil spills how they are cleaned up, and how you can help prevent water pollution. Additional links point to other topics relevant to the study of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Water You Doing to Help?
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), bodies of water in the Gulf Coast will be explored. Students will also simulate an oil spill. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This...
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