How I used these materials/High School Geology

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Submitted by Steve Nickel, High School teacher, Bowling Green Ohio

Consider energy education and your curriculum. How can you incorporate what you have learned into your science curriculum?

Use this planning sheet to 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.

Considering the benchmarks/standards that you are required to teach what science concept or content will you plan to teach:

Explain that humans are an integral part of the Earth's system and the choices humans make today impact natural systems in the future.

[edit] Ways to incorporate different teaching methods

  • Lecture
It would be really interesting to have a representative from OOGEEP come and give a guest lecture on the impact on the environment from oil and gas wells. Also have him/her discuss our local geology and oil and gas potential.
  • Audio-visual
I would show all the photos and videos that I took during this class and ask the students if they knew what state they were taken in. Also, I would show the pictures of the common household products with the price per barrel covered up and have them guess how much it would cost compared to oil. This would be a huge eye opener for them and help them understand that oil is really not that expensive.
  • Demonstration
I would probably demonstrate the formation of the oil and gas with the bottle and the meat, vegetation, and water making one up for them to see and have one already about a week old to show the difference.
  • Discussion Group
I could have students choose sides and even have a debate about drilling in the parks and residential areas.
  • Practice by Doing
Students would use set up and “drill” in the cups with the sand, gravel, and soil. They would also use the Styrofoam containers to get a contour of what the ground looked like below the surface. Very neat.
  • Teach Others/Immediate Use of Learning
It would be fun to have the students make up a lot of the Styrofoam contour containers and take them to the middle school along with the wooden thump activity. This would really give the middle school students an idea of some future jobs and careers.
  • Use of Technology
Students would read http://rebar.ecn.purdue.edu/ect/Mechanical/smartpigs.aspx and come up with some situations where this technology could be used in other areas. They could then design more “smart pigs” to perform other tasks as well.
  • Use of 21st Century Skills
Students would study http://www.geology.wisc.edu/courses/g115/oil/4.html and come up with new ways of accomplishing the same thing. They could research the new shales that we have discovered in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

[edit] Ways to incorporate graphic organizers

  • Students would come up with a flow chart or concept map that would show the path that oil takes from the day it formed to the day it ended up in a car engine (cradle to grave). This would include algae getting buried, turning into oil, getting pumped out of the ground, piped and trucked to the refinery, separated, and then to the gas station. At many steps of the way, they could show different paths that it could go depending on the situation or circumstances. This could be done in groups of 2.
  • In groups of 4, students will make a movie using windows moviemaker showing and explaining oil, the use of oil, the impact on the environment, pros and cons of oil, and end up with alternative (supplemental) energies that will be here in the near future. Students can find local examples and potential areas for new energies. A scoring rubric would be used to be sure that all criteria were met.

[edit] Ways to use field trips or make real-life industry connections

I would contact Randy Brown, Curator, Wood County Historical Center in Bowling Green, Ohio and arrange a time that I could bring my Geology class to the museum and see if he would be willing to give us a talk about the history of oil development since it was discovered in the Black Swamp area in 1883. The derrick is still there today and is very impressive. I am sure that students have driven by here and did not know what they were looking at. The following site talks about the oil history in this area. http://blackswampmemories.org/OG.html
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