Formation

• STEM lab stations provide hands-on learning
• Formation activities lead to deeper understanding for students
• Researching crude oil and natural gas formation
• Workshop provides helpful STEM lessons
• Thinking about dinosaurs and the formation of crude oil and natural gas
• What will these decomposing materials turn into?
• Students discover that plankton is real AND useful
• Listening, drawing and learning
• The question is “How stinky would that be?”
• Students benefit from teacher’s workshop learning!
• Understanding energy in St. Clairesville
• Methane gas in the classroom
• Virtual High School students get hands-on science time!

Migration and trapping

• Holes in rocks
• STEM activities solidify knowledge
• Holes are helpful! Learning about rocks in landscaping
• Porous rocks and pipeline pigging
• Workshop kit provides valuable materials
• Studying soil profiles and percolation rates
• New lab activity helps students understand concepts
• Filling in knowledge gaps
• Lab activities connect with career possibilities
• Permeability, porosity and the water cycle

Exploration

• High praise for elementary STEM workshop!
• Seismic wave studies
• Exploring for natural gas and oil
• Using the Hamm seismograph app to "see" underground
• Reinforcing learning by explaining concepts
• Another kind of mining
• Can you hear the oil down there?
• Students gain valuable career information
• Poking around in the dirt provides topography learning
• Science for the ears, eyes, and mouth!

Drilling and well stimulation

• Physical science with OOGEEP lessons
• Team building to create a derrick!
• Teachers try their hands at drilling!
• The advantages of natural gas and crude oil
• Core sampling in the classroom
• Researching oil and gas careers
• Hands-on 'drilling' lab and oil well
• Second graders do some 'drilling'
• Informed discussions about drilling in Ohio
• Seeing Twinkies in a whole new light
• Sweet explorations: teaching with Twinkies
• Learning about local oil and gas industry

Producing and transporting

• Tackling transportation of oil and natural gas
• Increasing literacy with science article critiques
• Pig in a pipeline
• Elementary-level teaching provides new application of workshop lessons, materials
• Tackling pipe transportation system
• Straws and “pigs” promote hands-on learning
• Discovering an oil well on campus
• STEAM class connects force and motion with pipeline pigging

Refining

• Distillation discoveries
• Distilling mouthwash to understand refining
• Uncovering facts about Ohio’s natural gas and oil resources

Petrochemicals and products

• SuperSuit Investigation
• Using OOGEEP lessons in Material Science and Chemistry classes
• Using scientific methods to assess swimsuit fabrics
• Assessing swimsuit fabric—what's best?
• Should Santa be going down the chimney if the fire is lit?
• New understanding of production and hydraulic fracturing
• New ideas for science fair projects!

Differentiation of Earth's layers

• Digging into density
• Pie Slices of Earth
• Recreating Earth's layers and more!
• Bringing the 'wow' factor
• Great workshop leads to engaged students
• Layers of knowledge help make connections
• Getting a historical perspective with geology timeline
• Getting the big picture of Earth's layers
• Great visual aids from geology workshop
• Layers lead to learning about earth's interior

From continental drift to plate tectonics

• Geology workshop a summer highlight
• New activities to teach familiar concepts
• Hands-on learning boosts understanding
• Manipulating the earth; creating the super‑continent
• Geology workshop provides valuable field trip and more
• Candy bar layers show Earth's movement
• Geology workshop provides useful activities for classroom
• Landmasses, migration, and biodiversity
• Putting the pieces together

The building blocks of our rocks

• Quick growing crystals wow the crowd
• Candy and crystals make geology learning fun
• Observing earth's crust

Rocks vs. minerals

• Rockin' Clue game makes rock identification fun
• Chad sips lemonade during happy child camp fun!
• Rock classification by design
• Sorting rocks by observation
• Teacher receives helpful lessons and supplies
• STEM night increases geology knowledge
• Benefits of workshop for teachers

Earth's energy sources

• Carbon cycle connections
• Exciting career exploration!