This lesson will allow students to explore an important role of environmental engineers: cleaning the environment. Students will learn details about the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which was one of the most publicized and studied environmental tragedies in history. In the accompanying activity, they will try many "engineered" strategies to clean up their own manufactured oil spill and learn the difficulties of dealing with oil released into our waters.

Concepts

engineering, pollution, exxon valdez, stem, oil spills

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Additional Tags

environmental engineering, oil cleanup, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, oil spill, exxon valdez oil spill

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)