• Teachers may want to begin by asking students how
large of an area they think the Deepwater Horizon
oil spill covers. Teachers can have their students
begin to understand the scale of the spill
by sending students to Web sites that overlay the
size of the spill on any location entered. Two particularly
good Web sites include How Big is the
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill? (Rademacher 2010,
http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill/#) and If ItWas
My Home—–Visualizing the BP Oil Spill (Lintner
2010, http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com).