Projects

Select one of the Projects Below or email teachers@fuelpdxonfire.com to suggest your own.

Wanted: Younger Projects!

1. Independent Research Project

   Description: Individual student report on Fuel controversy, certified by an adult to be a suitable challenge. Suggested topics: Controversies over Oil, Gasoline, Natural Gas, Propane, Peak Oil, Oil Companies in 3rd World Countries, Wars over Oil, Colonialism,
   
   Deliverable: Word doc, including header with name, date, age/grade level, title.
   
   State Standards: English, Social Studies, Communication
   
   Fuel: PDX on Fire Display Option: Best essays displayed on site, on the web-page

2. Historical Time-Line of Fuel (Age: 7 - 18)
   
   Description: Students in each class or multiple classes together each find out one piece of information about Fuel usage in a different time, place and culture.
   
   Deliverable: Information is made into large time-lines suitable for school hallways, with single-page explanation essays connected to dates. Banner must hang in a public area.
   
   State Standards: English, Social Studies, Communication
   
   Fuel: PDX on Fire Display Option: - best student single-page entries incorporated into the full Fuel: PDX on Fire Timeline Of Fuel project.
   
   
3. Chemistry: Popping a Methane Bubble (Age: 13-18)
   
   Description: Most schools have methane spigots in the science classrooms. Use a viscous polymer to create giant methane bubbles and combust them in the classroom!
   
   Deliverable: Science Lab Writeup from each student. Video and Photographic Evidence encouaged.
   
   State Standards: Science, Mathematics, Communication
   
   Fuel: PDX on Fire Display Option: - best student presenters will present this project live on stage.
   
   
4. Political Science: Oregon's Liquid Natural Gas Pipeline (Age: 13-18)
   
   Description: Oregon is home to a massive controversy over Fuel delivery and consumption that is emblematic of some of the difficult choices facing our country this Century. Students research and write or debate about this ongoing decision.
   
   Deliverable: Debate, Essay
   
   State Standards: Language Arts, Communication, Political Awareness
   
   Fuel: PDX on Fire Display Option: - Public debate on the mainstage on Saturday
   
   
5. Mathematics: Stoichiometry and Units of Consumption (Age: 13-18)
   
   Description: Students research fuel consumption units and try to work out comparable consumption units for electric, natural gas, diesel and wood heat.
   
   Deliverable: 3-5 person team posters explaining a particular comparison visually.
   
   State Standards: Mathematics, Communication
   
   Fuel: PDX on Fire Display Option: - Public display of student work on site.