Making Sense of the Deepwater Oil Spill Disaster

The general expectation that all students can develop models "based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts" (NGSS Lead States 2013) grew as our department extended an action research project and book study of Muhammad's (2020) Cultivating Genius into classroom activities "post" pandemic. Quantitative data collection/analysis was limited to available datasets from the EPA and NOAA generated during the active Gulf of Mexico crisis in the 2010s (Activity 2). [...]students summarize their learning at various points of the year in a project of their choosing that demonstrates their "KNOW-ledge" (Activity 3). [...]if there are inconsistencies in the data, students are able to make sense of