{"id":844,"date":"2021-04-27T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T23:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/?p=844"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T22:32:18","slug":"oil-spill-hands-on-science-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/2021\/04\/27\/oil-spill-hands-on-science-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Spill; Hands-on Science Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we continue to make our way down the Fraser River, our most recent stop was Prince George.\u00a0 Our discussion of Prince George and Quesnel has centred around natural resources.\u00a0 We talked about the railway coming to these two towns and how it supported the resource economy.\u00a0 We have discussed clear-cuts, sawmills (still to come, the Gold Rush), and the environmental impacts associated with some of these industries.\u00a0 We have been discussing the impact that barge fires on the Fraser, wash-outs from the clear-cuts, and even chemical and oil spills from barges and railway cars might have on the salmon.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, the students ran a simulation of an oil spill and used materials such as skimmers (spoon), cotton and sponge absorbing booms, and chemical dispersants (Dawn dishwashing soap).\u00a0 The red Lego piece represents a turned-over railway car.\u00a0 The objective was to keep the oil from getting to the rock (beach\/riverbank) on the far side.\u00a0 It was much harder than the students thought it would be and one of the surprises was how much garbage we created in trying to soak up the oil.<\/p>\n

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As we continue to make our way down the Fraser River, our most recent stop was Prince George.\u00a0 Our discussion of Prince George and Quesnel has centred around natural resources.\u00a0 We talked about the railway coming to these two towns and how it supported theRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/martoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}