Teaching resources: By product

Alberta Education Approved | Learning Resource Series
Available in both English and French | Free to download

Canada - Fueled by Resources | Grades 4 & 5
(curriculum links under review by Alberta Education)
Students discover how geography can affect natural resources, population and transportation.

Counting on Gasoline | Grades 8-11
Students learn about the complicated factors that go into determining retail gas prices.

Drive - The Way Life Moves | Grades 10-12
Students explore of the impact of petroleum resources in our daily lives.

Earth Really Rocks | Grades K-3
Students learn about the link between rocks and petroleum.

Energy Machines | Grades 4-6
Students are introduced to the basic mechanics of the drill rig and pump jack.

Petroleum Magic | Grades 1 & 2
Students talk the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) and discover common petroleum products.

Petroleum - The Source of So Much | Grades 7-9
Students identify products that are made from petroleum and petrochemicals.
Where you live, what you eat and wear, and how you move – it's all connected to petroleum.

Pipelines - Our Invisible Highway | Grade 9
Students discover the economic, environmental, social and regulatory impacts of pipelines.


Alberta Education Approved | Centre for Energy Publications
Purchase at the Bookstore

Canada's Crude Oil Resources | Grades 7-12
This booklet discusses the importance of crude oil to our everyday.

Canada's Evolving Offshore Oil and Gas Industry | Grades 10-12
This booklet focuses on East Coast offshore activity, developments in BC and the Arctic.

Canada's Natural Gas Resources | Grades 7-12
This booklet discusses the importance of natural gas to our everyday.

Canada's Oilsands | Grades 7-12
This booklet explains the increasing importance of oilsands to Canadians.

Canada's Pipelines | Grades 10-12
This booklet examines pipeline regulations, safety, environmental and economic issues.

Our Petroleum Challenge, 7th edition | Grades 7-12
The premier guide to the oil and gas industry.


Other Resources

Electricity poster kit | Grades 4-9 Petroleum poster kit | Grades 4-5 Petroleum Field Trips | Grades 7-8 Climate Change Chemistry | Grades 11-12 Alberta's Petroleum Power | Grade 10
Produced and distributed by Inside Education. Email: info@insideeducation.ca Phone: 780-421-1497

Energy Literacy Series | Grades 6-12 Creating a Climate of Change | Grades 9-12
Produced and distributed by SEEDS Foundation with funding from the Centre for Energy.
Copies of Creating a Climate of Change may be obtained from the SEEDS Foundation, via
e-mail: dlunn@rife.com, or online at www.greenschools.ca.