< / i > < / p > < /引用> < p > < span风格=“粗细:400;> AirWaterGas& # 8217的一部分;我们的使命，以及Inside Energy的使命，就是与18luck新利最新下载地址我们的观众分享我们对能源发展的了解，更重要的是，与教育工作者分享我们的故事给学生和他们生活的社区。2015年，8名airwaterergas驻校教师– science teachers from areas of Colorado with rapid oil and gas development – created a suite of classroom activities to help middle and high school students understand the environmental and economic impacts and engineering related to oil and gas wells.
This year, Inside Energy, with the help of animator MacGregor Campbell and our former data journalist Jordan Wirfs-Brock, augmented some of that curriculum with short, animated videos that help bring the topics down to earth for students (and, let’s be honest, all of us). If you’d like to use these videos to talk with students or your own children about oil and gas development, each video has an accompanying lesson plan geared towards 6th-12th graders—enjoy!
Why Fracking, And Why Now? – What is hydraulic fracturing, why has it become such a dominant technology for the oil and gas industry, and why is it so controversial? This video explores how economics, technology, and geology all play a role in the fracking boom using pastries as an analogy. There are two accompanying lesson plans: Make a Fracking Model Activity (Grades 6-12) and Rock Porosity Experiment (Grades 6-10).
Water Use in Hydraulic Fracturing – Key concerns for critics of fracking include the demand for water resources, and potential for water pollution. This video explains how much water is used in fracking, and how it is disposed of after the fracking process. Accompanying lesson plan: Water Use in Hydraulic Fracturing (Grades 6-8).
Drilling: A High Stakes Game – Who decides where an oil or gas well is drilled? There are many players involved. In this video, we look at all the stakeholders in the process and address how decisions are made about drilling in and around communities. Don’t miss the excellent lesson plan that pairs with this video, Boomtown Game (Grades 6-12).
Andrew Cullen
A pumpjack works throughout the night, bathed in the light from flares and electric lights on oil well pads near Watford City, North Dakota, which also illuminate low-hanging clouds.
When oil prices tanked in 2014 and 2015, production slowed down and the fiery disputes surrounding the industry followed suit. But, those prices have been creeping back up over the last year. Companies are drilling again and communities are worrying again, especially in the wake of a fatal home explosion in Colorado traced to a nearby well.
For the next few months, we’ll be partnering with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Center for Science Education to get to the bottom of some of the most common and lingering questions about the impacts of oil and gas development, sharing what we know, what we don’t know, and the areas of active research.
For this to really work, we need to hear from you. What do you wonder about oil and gas development? If you live near it, what’s top of mind for you? Submit your question using the form above, and you might just see the answer to it in an upcoming story.
We’ll be talking to researchers, scientists, engineers, economists and social scientists – who have been exploring how oil and gas development affects our environment, communities, health and climate. As always, we’ll be committed to the facts and to reporting them in a way that doesn’t feel like eating our vegetables.
This collaboration is made possible with funding from AirWaterGas, a National Science Foundation Sustainability Research Network as well as by our on-going funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We’re really excited about it, and we hope you’ll take part!