Oil Spill Lab

Readings

• Is Hawaii prepared for a major oil spill.doc

• Midway jet fuel spill.doc

• Oil spill on coral70_coral_full_report.pdf

• NOAA Coral Reefs & Oil Spill

Activities

• Sediment penetration exercise.doc

• Exxon spill.doc

• Prince Williams Oily Mess Lesson.pdf

• The Gulf oil spill in the classroom.doc

• GNOME Kaneohe Bay

Hawaii Beach sand representing different grain size.

Sediment Penetration Exercise

How do liquids of different viscosities penetrate beach sand?

Exxon Spill

• Demonstrate the effect of the oil spill on birds • Demonstrate the way oil leaking from a tanker

spreads out to form a slick on the surface of the water.

• Discuss effects of oil mousse on intertidal life.• Graph bird causalities discovered immediately

following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. • Investigate various methods to clean up an oil spill.• Use the Merck Index to identify chemicals found in

crude oil.

Prince Williams Oily Mess.pdf

STEP 1c: State Your Predictions!

STEP 2b: Record Your DataSTEP 3a: Plot Your DataSTEP 4a: Interpret Your Data

and Write a Scientific Report

The Gulf Oil Spill in the Classroom

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/01/us/20100501-oil-spill-tracker.html

Track the Gulf Spill:

GNOME Kaneohe Bay

Project an oil spill in the bay