Teachers can reserve the Playing with Petroleum Kit for a period up to 14 days for their classroom use by attending a Project E³ workshop.  The Playing with Petroleum Kit is a FREE traveling classroom exhibit that brings hydrocarbon-based energy education to your students in a multidisciplinary format. Curriculum in the kit is correlated to State and National Standards.

What’s in the Playing with Petroleum Kit?

• Gaston Lays an Offshore Pipeline & Activity
• Gaston Drills an Offshore Oil Well & Activity
• I’ve Got a Crush Sedimentation Activity
• Bubbling Crude Activity
• Petromania CDROM
• Guide to Microfossils and the Search for Oil
• 8 Microfossil Rubbing Plates
• Get the Petroleum Picture Activity
• Around the World with Offshore Money
• Berea Grit Sandstone Bullet Cores
• Drill Bit Model & PIG
• Sedimentator Tubes & Activities
• Cooking with Earth Science Activity
• 6 laminated Posters for Ride the Carbon Cycle
• 15 copies of Earth’s Energy
• Magnetic pictures from Get the Petroleum Picture Activity
• 8 Sets of Solar Beads-Solar Bead Lab
• 5 Energy Balls- Insulator/Conductor Lab, Open & Closed Circuits, and Series & Parallel Circuits
• OEC generated CD with Games/Activities
• Correlation of PWP to TEKS

Playing with Petroleum Kit Objectives:

• Describe how sediments are formed and their importance
• Describe how microfossils are important to geologists
• Describe the importance of petroleum in our daily lives and objects made from petroleum
• Identify how petroleum is formed and what organisms become petroleum
• Understand the commitment of the oil industry in protecting the environment

Workshop Schedule:

Workshop Registration Form (click here to download form )

For more information, contact:
Offshore Energy Center
Doris Tomas, Education Director
200 N. Dairy Ashford, Suite 4119
Houston, TX 77079
281-544-2435
dtomas@oceanstaroec.com