Educators
Energy4me offers teachers of all grade levels tools for teaching about oil and gas and other energy sources including fun classroom activities/experiments,classroom presentations by members of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), teacher workshops at select SPE conferences, an energy education kit for your classroom, and an “Oil and Natural Gas” book for students.
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Teacher Workshops
Monday, 13 July – Friday,17 July
Sponsored by SPE-Gulf Coast Section
Earth Science and Energy Education: A Summer Institute for Teachers
Houston, Texas, USA
Thursday, 6 August
Teachers Day
Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition
Jakarta, Indonesia
Friday, 11 September
Education Day
Offshore Europe
Aberdeen, Scotland
Wednesday 7 October
Energize Your Classroom Teacher Workshop
SPE Annual Technology Conference and Exhibition (ATCE)
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Classroom Materials
Activities and Experiments
Lesson Plans
Energy4me Kit
Oil and Natural Gas Book
Classroom Speakers
Our energy professionals connect science to our daily lives
Energy4me engages SPE’s 88,000+ professional members worldwide to serve as classroom speakers, science fair judges, and career fair exhibitors. Teachers receive a free copy of the Oil and Natural Gas book when the presentation is given.
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Teacher Workshops
Learn to teach energy in a fun, exciting way
Free one-day teacher workshops held at select SPE conferences. Covers grade-specific, hands-on energy lessons and activities that meet state/national science standards. Training led by National Energy Education Development Project (NEED), and hosted by SPE.
Classroom Activities and Materials
Energize your classroom with the Energy4me Kit
The Energy4me Kit offers teaching aids, speaker resources, sample presentations, classroom activities and hands-on experiments for teaching energy in the classroom in a fun, exciting way. Activities for every grade level and petroleum engineer career information is included.
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Download select classroom activities for free!
Oil and Natural Gas book with ready-to-go lesson plans and experiments
Easily demonstrate the dynamic processes of the discovery of oil and how it shapes our world with SPE’s fun, colorfully illustrated, and information-filled book on the history and uses for oil.This easy to read book is loaded with colorful photos, diagrams, and graphics.Teachers receive a free book when an SPE member visits your classroom! Free corresponding lesson plans and experiments that meet national standards are also available for download.
Ready-to-go presentations
Presentations you can use immediately in your classroom, or just to learn more!
Energy—Making Our Lives Easier (elementary)
Oil/Gas/Energy—Myths and Reality (educators/adults)
Petroleum Engineers Make a World of Difference (middle school/high school)
$100 Oil: Hard Truths - Reasoned Response (educators/adults)
Career Brochure
A resource for high school students on petroleum engineering careers
Includes the Top 10 Reasons to Become a Petroleum Engineer. Orders of 100 brochures or fewer are free! Complete the special request form and email it to EnergyEd@Energy4me.org or fax to +1.866.719.8241 (US only) or +1.972.739.6192 (Non-US) to order.
150th Anniversary of Oil Wells
Celebrating the Story - Progress from Petroleum
2009 is the 150th anniversary of the first successful commercial oil well in the U.S., the Drake Well. Be sure to visit www.oil150.com for classroom resources and events.
