Lessons

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  Combustion

  6-8  
  In this lesson, students will gain a better understanding of what energy is, how it can be changed into other forms of energy, and how physical and chemical processes contribute to that.
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  Transforming Energy

  6-8  
  In this lesson, students investigate how electrical energy can be produced from a variety of energy sources and then transformed to almost any other form of energy.
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  Chemical Engineers and the Things They Do

  6-8  
  In this lesson, students explore the field of chemical engineering and identify the contributions of chemical engineers to society.
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  Energy for You

  6-8  
  In this lesson, students will learn about the sources of the energy that supply their community.
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  Technology and Oil

  6-8  |  Interactive
  This lesson demonstrates how much our society depends on petroleum products and shows how advances in technology have allowed us to find, obtain, and transport oil more efficiently.
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  Searching for Oil: The Role of Science and Technology

  9-12  
  In this lesson, students explore how geoscientists use technology and computer modeling to find oil and natural gas.
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  Inventions of Necessity: Synthetic Rubber

  9-12  
  In this lesson, students explore the relationship between societal needs and technological development by examining the history and making of synthetic rubber.
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  Chemistry of Petroleum 1: What Are Hydrocarbons?

  9-12  |  Hands-On
  In this lesson, students will explore hydrocarbons, the molecular basis of petroleum, and learn to distinguish between organic and inorganic compounds.
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  Chemistry of Petroleum 2: What Happens to Hydrocarbons When They Burn?

  9-12  
  In this lesson, students examine the varying amounts of energy produced by the combustion of different hydrocarbons.
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  Chemistry of Petroleum 3: Distillation of Hydrocarbons

  9-12  |  Video
  In this lesson, students learn how hydrocarbons in crude oil are distilled and treated in the refinery process to produce useful materials.
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  Chemistry of Petroleum 4: Treatment of Hydrocarbons

  9-12  |  Interactive
  In this lesson, students learn how petroleum fractions are chemically treated in the refinery process to produce useful materials.

Tools

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  Oil Refining: A Closer Look

  9-12  |  Video
  This resource contains a video and an interactive explaining how petroleum was formed and how it is processed.