Tag: Oil Spill

Oct 04

Green Way to Clean up Oil Spill

My 8th graders found that BP could have used hay to clean up much of the oil spill without putting any dispersants or dispersed oil in the water. We saw the following YouTube video: Here is our class’ response video where we tested their idea for ourselves:

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Sep 11

Great First Week!

What a great first week of school! I am lucky enough to get to work with three classes of 6th grade Science and two classes of 8th grade Science. Thanks to Mr. Rice’s Play with a Purpose blog we did a fun activity on the first day of school with oobleck. I had to take …

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