Oil Sands Field Trips DVD

In this fun video series, hosts Zoe and Eric take your students on field trips to the oil sands operations in northern Alberta. Your students will learn what oil sand is, why it is important, how we get it out of the ground and how some of the challenges of extraction are being met. Available in both English and French.

This resource supports:

Grade 4 Social Studies: Alberta - A Sense of the Land

Grade 5 Social Studies: Physical Geograpy of Canada

Grade 7 Science:

The videos for this resource are available online:

English

Trip 1 - What are the oil sands?

Trip 2 - Mining

Trip 3 - In situ

Trip 4 - Meeting the challenges

French

Trip 1 - Que sont les sables bitumineux?

Trip 2 - Les exploitations minieres

Trip 3 - In situ

Trip 4 - Relever les defis