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Oil Oil Everywhere

This lesson plan makes real world connections as students explore the ability to estimate the surface area of an oil spill. The lesson provides surface area information about the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and gives students opportunities to estimate small oil spills of their own making. This lesson includes two students activity sheets, one fractional amount overhead sheet, assessment and extension suggestions, and questions for...

Keywords:: Social Sciences, Addition, Analyze and Persevere, Estimation, NSDL, Ecology, Representation, Oil Spills, Fractions, Nature and Environment, Process Skills, Physics, Surface Area, Area, Human Impacts, Number and Operations, Visual Representation, Systems of Measurement, Arithmetic, Practice Standards, Nonstandard Shapes, Forestry and Agriculture, Nonstandard, Real-world Applications, Geoscience, Measurement, BP Oil Spills, Environmental Science, Ocean Science, Mathematics, Modeling, Model With Mathematics, Waves, Science, Life Sciences, Writing in Mathematics, Oceans and Water, Gulf of Mexico, Education, Communication, Reason Quantitatively