A lesson which maps out the area damaged in relation to Europe, explores how the oil slick was contained and determines who was to blame

1. How can
this help
reduce the
impact of
the Gulf Of
Mexico Oil
spill?
SOURCE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8672124.stm

2. Learning Objective
Understand how the impacts of the
2010 Gulf of Mexico oil leak were
reduced
Determine who is to blame for this disaster

3. Activity one- How far did the oil
spread?
Oranges- using the Europe base map-
draw out a 2,000 square mile area of
oil
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Yellows- using the BBC map of the spill,
calculate the area covered on the 1st May
2010. Draw this over your Europe Map

4. ORANGES

6. How can
you stop
the spread?

7. SOURCE:
http://news.bb
c.co.uk/1/hi/86
51333.stm

8. What did BP do?
SOURCE:
http://www.bbc
.co.uk/news/10
317116

9. “It’s not our fault”
Tony Hayward
BP CEO
SOURCE:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/rowenamason/1
00006019/bp-oil-spill-tony-hayward-faces-the-city/

10. Just some of the
products that
are made from oil
SOURCE:
http://www.penrithact.org.uk/resources/abou
t-peak-oil

11. BP: Gulf of Mexico oil spill
'shared responsibility‘
27th Feb 2013
“While BP was extracting
the oil from underneath the
Gulf of Mexico when the
Macondo well exploded,
the Deepwater Horizon rig
itself was owned by
Transocean. Cement used
to seal the well was
provided by Halliburton.”

12. Learning Objective
Understand how the impacts of the
2010 Gulf of Mexico oil leak were
reduced
Determine who is to blame for this disaster

13. What headline could you give here?