Oil Spill Education Resources

These links are provided as suggestions only to help schools and community groups learn more about oil spills and their effects.

Read a suggested Oil Spill Teacher Unit Plan with links to the New Zealand Curriculum (190 KB, pdf)

Information on the Rena Oil Spill

• Maritime New Zealand- includes latest media updates, and photographs
  www.maritimenz.govt.nz
• Water monitoring- Bay of Plenty Regional Council
  The Regional Council monitors rivers, lakes, tidal, rainfall, meteorological and air quality sites throughout the Bay of Plenty. The majority of these sites are telemetered i.e. the data from them is transmitted back to base via the radio or phone network. this maybe useful for older students to see how the Council is always checking the status of the water
  http://monitoring.boprc.govt.nz/MonitoredSites/cgi-bin/hydwebserver.cgi/catchments/details?catchment=23
• Oiled Wildlife Response (Massey University)
  www.massey.ac.nz/massey/research/centres-research/nz-wildlife-health-centre/oiled-wildlife-response/oiled-wildlife-response_home.cfm

Teaching resources on oil and oil spills

• Oil Spill Teacher Unit Plan with links to the New Zealand Curriculum (190 KB, pdf)
• Oil Spill Information for Schools (Northland Regional Council)
  www.nrc.govt.nz/For-Schools/School-information-packs/Oil-Pollution/
• An Ocean of Oil (National Wildlife Federation- USA)
  www.nwf.org/~/media/PDFs/Kids/oilspill_mini-page.ashx
• Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals - The Age of Oil (EXITO Industry Training and New Zealand Geographic Society)
  Year 12 and 13 Geography resource kit
• Oil Spill education (National Geographic- USA)
  www.nationalgeographic.com/educator-resources/oil-spills/
• Office of response and restoration- Students and teachers(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration- USA)
  http://archive.orr.noaa.gov/audience_catalog.php?RECORD_KEY(audience_chosen)=audience_id&audience_id(audience_chosen)=2
  (NB  Resources from the USA are mostly based on the Gulf of Mexico oil drilling rig explosion)

Health and Wellbeing of Students

• Toi Te Ora Public Health
  www.toiteorapublichealth.govt.nz/rena_oil_spill
• Managing Emergencies and Tramatic Incidents (Ministry of Education) www.minedu.govt.nz/theMinistry/EmergencyManagement/Preparedness/EmergenciesTraumaticIncidents.aspx

Cultural Values

• Stories of Tauranga Moana (Evelyn Stokes: Tauranga Public Library)
  www.library.tauranga.govt.nz/local-history/maori/stories-of-tauranga-moana.aspx

Marine and Coastal Ecosystems

• Life's a Beach Coastal Education Resource (Bay of Plenty Regional Council)
  www.boprc.govt.nz/residents/teachers/life's-a-beach/
• Bay of Plenty Marine Library (Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and the Department of Conservation)
  www.marinelibrary.co.nz/home.html
• Seaweek Resources (New Zealand Association of Environmental Education)
  www.seaweek.org.nz
• Star Fish and Fish for Tomorrow (Ministry of Fisheries)
  www.fish.govt.nz
• Keeping our waters, beaches and coastline clean for future generations to enjoy- teaching unit (Maritime New Zealand)
  http://www.maritimenz.govt.nz/Publications-and-forms/Environmental-protection/MNZ-school-resource-environment.pdf