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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of several garbage patches around the world where garbage accumulates naturally. As part of a GIS unit that combines oceanography, environmental science, and life science, class members investigate...
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Pesky Plastics: The Problem with Plastic
What can happen to the environment if plastic continues to pollute it? Learners read about the implications of plastic on health, water, and nature in a two-page reading passage. After they finish reading, they work on six comprehension...
Curated OER
Oils and Plastic
Peruse the properties of polymers with your materials engineers, chemistry aces, or emerging ecologists. The inquiries in this resource include puncturing polyethylene plastic bags, dissolving polystyrene cups, creating a polymer ball...
Curated OER
Petro Products
In this petroleum products learning exercise, students are given the components of crude oil and they graph the various products found in a 50 gallon barrel. Students complete an activity to determine if they have collected cards that...
Curated OER
Technology and Oil
Students examine how society depends on petroleum products. They determine how technological advances have improved the ways these products are obtained, found, and transportation.
Curated OER
Products from Petroleum
Students examine products that are petroleum based. In this petroleum product lesson, students examine a display of petroleum based products. They discuss the products that are made from crude oil and conduct an experiment that...
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Canadian Centre for Energy Information: Petroleum in Your Home
Click on each room of your home and see lists of common petroleum-based products, then make a list of the ones you use.
The Environmental Literacy Council
Environmental Literacy Council: Petroleum
Petroleum and petroleum-based products have played an impressive role as energy for the 20th century. Learn about its uses, benefits, increased consumption, effects on our environment, and the many new replacement technologies.
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Canadian Centre for Energy Information: Petroleum the Source of So Much [Pdf]
This colourful 12-page booklet shows how petroleum products pervade all aspects of our lives. Some activities are included.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Canada's Petroleum Heritage
Petroleum! Where does it come from? Follow its importance, technology, rank in the world, products, and more.. in this colorful, informative web site.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Qatar: Economy
As Qatar's economy is based on oil, this article discusses the role petroleum products play throughout the fabric of the country. Information is from Background Notes from the U.S. State Department. Current to 2007.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Malaysia: Economy
Learn about Malaysia's booming economy based on both services and industry. The government's active role has encouraged Malay ownership of corporations. Information from U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.