Oil 150 Nationwide Museum Kit Program--Educator's Guide
Front Matter
Introduction (104.89 KB)
Table of Contents (90.31 KB)
Funding Acknowledgement (75.15 KB)
Oil 150 Nationwide Museum Kit Checklist--Children's Museums (57.69 KB)
Oil 150 Nationwide Museum Kit Checklist--History and Science Museums (57.49 KB)
Section 1--The Drake Well and Pennsylvania's Early Oil Pioneers
Essays:
Edwin L. Drake and the Birth of the Modern Petroleum Industry
Biographical Sketches--Early Oil Pioneers (114.46 KB)
Handouts--Pioneering Petroleum Series:
John D. Archbold (158.75 KB)
Byron D. Benson (184.5 KB)
George Bissell (194.37 KB)
P.C. Boyle (209.71 KB)
Edwin L. Drake (185.78 KB)
Alvin Drake Deming (239.93 KB)
John Eaton (201.93 KB)
Edward Octavius Emerson (214.87 KB)
James M. Guffey (168.53 KB)
J.T. Jones (174.46 KB)
Samuel M. Kier (231.37 KB)
Charles Lockhart (152.21 KB)
John D. Rockefeller (209.03 KB)
Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (132.9 KB)
Emma Summers (208.12 KB)
Jacob J. Vandergrift (201.18 KB)
William Warden (241.09 KB)
Activites:
Drake Well Connect the Dots (126.58 KB)
Early Oil Pioneers Word Search (69.36 KB)
Early Oil Pioneers Crossword Puzzle (25.56 KB)
Section 2--Oil and Illumination
Essays:
Samuel M. Kier: Giving Oil Commercial Value through Medicine and Illumination
Yellow Dog Lanterns: A Brief History (136.55 KB)
Handout:
Timeline of Yellow Dog Lantern History, 1850-1890 (120.16 KB)
Activities:
Samuel M. Kier Secret Message (453.41 KB)
Yellow Dog Lantern Crossword Puzzle (61.56 KB)
Section3--Technology in the Petroleum Industry
Essay:
Technology in the Petroleum Industry
Handouts:
Offshore Oil Drilling (97.85 KB)
Directional Drilling (162.61 KB)
Activity:
Enhanced Oil Recovery (142.46 KB)
Section 4--Oil Transportation
Essay:
Early Oil Transportation: A Brief History (65.27 KB)
Handout:
Timeline of Oil Transportation Methods, 1860-1890 (341.98 KB)
Activities:
Oil Transportation Double Puzzle (254.23 KB)
How Big is an Oil Tanker (87.62 KB)
Oil Pipeline Diameters (112.46 KB)
Section 5--Refining Crude Oil
Essay:
Refining Crude Oil: History, Process and Products (58.48 KB)
Handouts:
Fractional Distillation (127.22 KB)
Products from Petroleum Checklist (42.85 KB)
Activities:
Ten Products Refined from Petroleum Crossword Puzzle (25.59 KB)
Products from Petroleum Word Search (80.95 KB)
Section 6--Music and the Pennsylvania Oil Boom
Essay:
Music and the Pennsylvania Oil Boom (74.68 KB)
Activities:
Music in the Oil Region Word Search (74.18 KB)
Sing Along to Oil on the Brain (110.6 KB)
Reference Materials
Captions for Historic Images
Bibliography (45.88 KB)
