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Oil is an important compound with unique characteristics that make it both useful to humans and dangerous.

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It is challenging to safely construct, operate, and navigate an oil tanker.

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• Students will build an oil tanker using design requirements.
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It is challenging to safely construct, operate, and navigate an oil tanker.

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• Students will build an oil tanker using ...

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Preventing and cleaning up small amounts of pollution can make a difference for animals, people, and ecosystems.

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• Students will identify and analyze ...

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Many important parts of ecosystems, economies, and communities could be changed by an oil spill.

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• Students will analyze and formulate opinions ...

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It is difficult and expensive to clean oiled animals.

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• Students will identify ways oil spill can adversely affect animals.
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Producers, consumers, and decomposers all play important roles in ecosystems.

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• Students will be able to describe the roles of producers, consumers, ...

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There are many innovations yet to be developed in the fields of energy and conservation.

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Students will follow the scientific process.

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We can all be stewards of the environment and ecosystems that support us.

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• Students will identify and analyze an environmental problem.
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Diverse plant and objects are part of the natural world.

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• Students will recognize that there is a wide variety of things ...

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There are many innovative ways to design a building that needs less  energy, generates less waste, and supports a healthy way of life.

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This is a short explainer activity for a booth or similar informal education/outreach venue to share about marine invasive species monitoring and specifically ...

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All living organisms need habitat to survive.

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• Students will know that a habitat is a natural home.
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There are many opportunities to conserve energy at home and school.

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• Students will understand how daily routines can use significant amounts ...

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We need creative solutions to the challenge of safely transporting oil around the world.

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• Students will form an opinion about double-hull ...

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A variety of different people are involved in oil spill response, clean up, and recovery of human and natural communities. People ...

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Generations of humans living along the coast are dependent upon healthy ecosystems.

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• Students will identify their personal use of local habitats, ...

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The varied participants and constantly changing conditions make it incredibly challenging to clean up and contain an oil spill.

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Although life in the intertidal zone is challenging, a diverse range of invertebrates and algae have adapted to live there.

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Animals and plants have unique adaptations to survive in the intertidal zone.

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• Students will understand the challenges of surviving in the ...

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It is important to use all of your senses when observing the natural world. Observing plant structures can help us to understand how ...

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Preventing and cleaning up marine debris is critical to the health of coastal and marine ecosystems.

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• Students will gather, identify, and ...

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It is important to use all of your senses when observing the natural world.

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• Students will use senses other than sight ...

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You can find living things of all sizes if you look closely.

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• Students will build a miniature nature trail to highlight ...

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Important legislation surrounding oil spill prevention and restoration and energy development and conservation must go through a rigorous process.

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It is challenging to construct a pipeline to safely transport oil over rugged terrain.

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• Students will construct a working model of ...

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Animals need food, water, and shelter to survive.

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• Students will be able to name three habitat necessities for animal ...

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Crude oil is composed of many fractions that can be used for different purposes.

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• Students will understand that crude oil is ...

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It is difficult and expensive to contain and clean up an oil spill.

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• Students will experiment with way to ...

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Viscosity is an important characteristic of petroleum products that determines their uses.

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• Students will measure the relative viscosity of different petroleum ...

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It is challenging to clean up oil once it has been spilled.

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• Students will work cooperatively to design and build an ...

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Oil has unique characteristics that make it both useful for people and dangerous to ecosystems.

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• Students will examine the ...

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Winds and currents spread oil from a spill very quickly, making it difficult to contain and clean up.

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• Students will estimate ...

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ROVs with video capability can be used to monitor the environment and perform inspections to prevent oil spills.

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Many important parts of ecosystems, economies, and communities could be changed by an oil spill.

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• Students will understand maps used in ...

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All five human senses are important in observing nature.

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• Students will use senses other than sight to observe natural objects.
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Oil is a non-renewable resource that comes from plankton (and other plants and animals) that have been transformed over millions of years of ...

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Oil undergoes changes in marine ecosystems.

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• Students will examine the basic characteristics of oil.
• Students will identify the three fractions of ...

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We can learn a lot about our local ecosystems by observing one spot over time.

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• Students will use many senses observe ...

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Paying attention to sounds can help us understand how ecosystems function.

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• Students will listen for five minutes in a semi-isolated space
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Energy from the sun is stored in plants.

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• Students will understand that energy from sun causes plants to grow.
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Animals need food, water, and shelter to survive.

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• Students will be able to name three habitat necessities for animal survival: food, ...

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The sun is a very important source of energy.

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• Students will understand the importance of the sun as an energy source.
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All parts of an ecosystem are connected and interdependent.

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• Students will understand that living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems ...

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A variety of animals rely on healthy habitats.

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• Students will identify several species of animals in Southcentral Alaska or their ...

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Oil spills can have a wide variety of effects on wildlife.

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• Students will identify major habitats of south coastal ...