Crude Oil is used for more than just gasoline - a problem based learning activity

Oil is used in many everyday objects - many more than you may have ever imagined.

1. Identify the current uses of oil.

2. Are there any crude oil sources in your state?

3. Imagine that your community no longer has access to one of the products of crude oil.
How would that impact your life?

 

4. How could you adapt? Is there a substitute or alternative?

 

5. How could your community benefit from a change to an alternative?

 

6. What change could be made at your school to reduce its reliance on oil based products?

 

7. What are the costs involved in the change?

 

Think about it: Styrofoam trays | Plastic Water bottles | Plastic bags - Americans generate 10.5 million tons of plastic waste a year but recycle only 1 or 2 % of it.

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