5e Lesson Plan
Teacher: Kimberley Powell, Layna Kirchner, Tiska Rodgers, Nicole Larue
Unit: What’s In Your Water? Lesson Title: Oil Spill Fill In
Time: 20- 30 min
State Framework(s) or Standard(s) or Benchmark(s):
Goal 1.4. Use technological tools and other resources to locate, select and organize information
Objective: What will your students be able to do by the end of class?Read a news article for information
Assessment: How will you know concretely that all of your students have mastered the objective? / Key Points: What three to five main ideas or steps will you emphasize in your lesson? May also include key questions to ask during instruction
Students will complete a worksheet / Skills Review of Reading for Information
Engage: Get the students’ minds focused on the topic (discrepant event, picture, question, etc). You may also assess prior knowledge / Materials
Show picture of oil spill from top of WS and review what it is and how we know. / Oil Spill Fill In Worksheet
Explore: Provide students with a common experience / Materials
Show website on SMARTBoard. Allow students to go to board and find answers to different questions in the article. / SMARTBoard or projector
http://topics.nytimes.com/
top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/
oil_spills/gulf_of_mexico_2010/index.html
Explain: Teach the concept. Include interaction between teacher and students / Materials
Discuss reading for content if needed.
Elaborate: Students apply information learned in “Explain”. / Materials
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Evaluate: How will you know the students have learned the concept? / Materials
Students will complete the worksheet with a score of at least 20 of 24 correct answers.
Gulf Oil Spill Fill-In
By KATHERINE SCHULTEN
nasa.gov The oil spill moving toward the Mississippi Delta on April 29.
An explosion on April 20 aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a drilling rig working on a well for the oil company BP one mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, has led to the largest oil spill in the history of the ______. After a series of failed efforts to plug the leak, government and company officials say ______will likely continue flowing until a relief well cuts off the gusher, an event expected sometime in ______.
In late May, the government estimated that between ______and ______barrels a day of oil are escaping, meaning that in the month after the blast, more than twice as much oil had been released as flowed from the wreck of the ______, which spilled about 250,000 barrels of oil into Prince Williams Bay in Alaska in ______. A containment cap put in place in early June began collecting ______barrels of oil a day, even though much of the oil continued to flow through valves on the cap that had not been closed, raising new questions over just how the big the spill is.
The Coast Guard commander, Adm. Thad W. Allen, said on June 7 that it could take ______to deal with the effects of the spill, in part because it had broken into hundreds of thousands of patches, spread from ______to ______.
By late May, Louisiana officials reported that up to 100 miles of coastline had been “oiled,” and the spill had begun seeping into environmentally fragile ______. In early June, oil reached the ______of Mississippi and Alabama and threatened Florida.
On June 1, the Justice Department announced that it would begin a ______investigation of the spill, to determine if any of the parties involved — ______, which was leasing the rig, which made it liable for the spill’s damage; ______, which owned the rig; and ______, which was involved in the effort to seal the well that preceded the blast — had violated ______laws. Congressional investigators were told of sharp conflicts in the hours before the blast, which killed ______workers, over how to handle the capping of the well, and uncovered evidence of missed ______signs. An internal memo showed that BP had chosen the ______of two methods of capping, despite worries about the risks involved.
As the weeks dragged on and BP failed repeatedly to plug the leak, the spill grew into a major political challenge for ______. It upended the debate on his proposal in March to expand ______— he halted virtually all drilling projects in late May — and seemed to derail a bipartisan attempt at energy and climate legislation in the Senate. The spill and its aftermath also brought to light the enduring laxity of ______regulation of offshore operations and led to plans to revamp the branch of the Interior Department responsible.
Oil
Florida
United States
Wetlands
25,000
Shores
12,000
Years
Transocean
Environmental
Cheaper
1989
August
11
Offshore drilling
Federal
Exxon Valdez
Louisiana
Criminal
Halliburton
15,000
BP
President Obama
Warning