Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Gulf Oil Spill in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the concept of environmental stewardship. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students investigate the media response to the Gulf oil spill as they examine live streaming video, interpret data, and share their...
Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Crude Oil and Gas Mileage

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Here is an activity that presents a real-world problem about the relationship between crude oil production and the gas mileage of modern automobiles. After learners write functions to describe the relationships, they are asked to...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Crude Oil and Gas Mileage

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...