How I used these materials/HS Environmental, Geology, Chemistry
From OOGEEP
Submitted by Susan Macenczak, Harrison Hills City Schools
Consider energy education and your curriculum. How can you incorporate what you have learned into your science curriculum? Brainstorm some ideas that would include a science concept that needs to be taught, a variety of teaching methods to address retention, and the use of graphic organizers.
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[edit] Benchmarks, Standards, Content or Concepts
I teach environmental science, geology, and chemistry and this can be incorporated easily into all 3 classes. I have Students in grades 11 and 12.
One area that can be incorporated is how oil and gas are formed. In Geology we can look at the layers of rock more in depth and incorporate the conditions of the landscape when different types of rocks are forming, what causes the faults and other changes. In environmental science we can concentrate on the uses of the gases and oil and look at the benefits and concerns in society today. We can look more in depth at different regulations. In chemistry we can look at the different densities and how the crude oil is refined into all of the different products.
[edit] Earth and Space Science Standard
C. Explain that humans are an integral part of the Earth's system and the choices humans make today impact natural systems in the future. (11-12)
09. Explain the effects of biomass and human activity on climate (e.g., climatic change and global warming). (11)
11. Analyze how materials from human societies (e.g., radioactive waste and air pollution) affect both physical and chemical cycles of Earth. (11)
12. Explain ways in which humans have had a major effect on other species (e.g.,influence of humans on other organisms occurs through land use) (11)
13. Explain how human behavior affects the basic processes of natural ecosystems and the quality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. (11)
14. Conclude that Earth has finite resources and explain that humans deplete some resources faster than they can be renewed. (11)
I will go through the process of how the oil and gas is formed and then how can it be found. We will look at the refining process and see how many different materials have their beginnings in petroleum. We can look at regulations and how petroleum products cause different types of pollution.
[edit] Ways to incorporate different teaching methods
- Lecture
I will first start by introducing the material and going over key vocabulary needed to get a basic understanding of the unit.
- Reading
I will have the students read comments about the oil spill in the gulf from various news/media outlets.
- Audio-visual
We will observe the webcam in the gulf oil spill. We will compare those pictures with pictures from around OH of oil and gas wells. We can look and see the various types of tanks and discuss their purposes and uses.
- Demonstrations
I will demonstrate different types of rigs found in the ocean using an aquarium.
- Discussion Groups
I will have them discuss the benefits of oil in our society. What types of safety precautions should be taken? Whose job is it to ensure that all safety regulations have been met? We will discuss different types of people involved with deciding to drill an oil well.
- Practice by Doing
I will have them analyze different types of plastics. What are the differences, how are they the same. What are different uses for each type. We will look at the density and hardness of each type of plastic.
- Teach Others/Immediate Use of Learning
I will divide the class into 6 groups and each group will be responsible for presenting material about each category. Unit 1: Formation Unit 2: Migrating & Trapping Unit 3: Exploration Unit 4: Drilling and Production Unit 5: Refining Unit 6: Products They will be responsible for designing a powerpoint that will best explain the concepts in each unit and develop questions for the class to answer after the presentation that they think should be able to be answered.
- Use of Technology
I will have the students go to the phet website ttp://phet.colorado.edu/ and complete the simulation for the effects of greenhouse effect found under the Earth Science section. They have many worksheets for the simulation available online and they can be customized for my classes.
- 21st Century Skills
By having the students use the computer and internet to create a powerpoint they will have to evaluate each website and determine if there is any bias that is presented. They will need to list the websites for their resources and then who created the website and they type of bias that they would have. ( ex. They are against oil drilling, for oil drilling)
[edit] Graphic Organizers
1. Have the students take a piece of paper and fold it in half. Then draw and cut lines so there is six sections on the top. They will label the top piece with each unit the students are presenting. They can lift the flap and take notes about what each unit is about. They can also incorporate pictures.
2. Another idea is to make a spider web and start with oil/gas in the center circle. Then have six branches coming off of that. (one for each unit) then for each subcircle the will interconnect the ideas/concepts presented.
3. I will have students list on a table of the different types of recyclable plastics. They will then look at home and find examples of the different types of plastics and then in a third column list common types of properties that make this a good choice to hold this material..
[edit] Field trips or Speakers
I will also incorporate coal mining with this and we have the Puskarich coal museum at the library in Cadiz, OH. We can take a trip to the library and see artifacts there as well as see how close some oil wells are to the school. I may have the students see how many they can find on their own by looking around and then after we have a list a school we can look at the ODNR website and see the location of many oil wells around us.