Teaching Guides & Videos
The teaching guides shown on this site may be used with or without ConocoPhillips' educational videos, which are available to teachers for free. Click on a link below to view a teaching guide or to request a video. Please note that video supplies are limited.
* These guides are available in Adobe Acrobat Reader format. If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here to download it.
The Search for Solutions
This ten-part video series and teaching guides take students on a fascinating journey exploring the nature and process of scientific discovery. Search for Solutions brings science alive with more than 60 different scientists and storytellers discussing their work and scientific philosophies. Episodes include: Understanding Science; Creativity, Serendipity & Aha!; Science & Technology; Exploration, Evidence & Investigation (Parts I & II); Modeling & Prediction (Parts I & II); Application, Adaptation & Design (Parts I & II); Explanation, Theory & Argument. Suitable for junior and senior high school grade levels.
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Search for Solutions Teachers Handout (44KB .PDF)
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HEADJAM Series
Science, math and critical thinking skills come to life in HEADJAM, the award-winning, educational, six-episode video series for middle school students. These zany, brainy programs explore multi-disciplinary skills in a highly entertaining way.
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 Teaching guides are available for all six episodes:
1) go figure… Math goes to work in the real world, where problem solving happens in unlikely places. 22 minutes
Teaching Guide (677KB .PDF)
2) the truth about H2O… From the hydrologic cycle to water audits and micro-organisms, great things happen when students hook up with the environment. 22 minutes
Teaching Guide (620KB .PDF)
3) slinky® science... Kids see gravity, inertia and centrifugal force from a whole new angle when you combine Slinky® with engineering concepts. 20 minutes
Teaching Guide (470KB .PDF)
4) think smart... Decision making takes a ride when students see how to analyze situations using science-based skills and strategic thinking. 22 minutes
Teaching Guide (471KB .PDF)
5) crude energy... Students receive a backstage pass to the world of petroleum where science and energy come together. 22 minutes
Teaching Guide (451KB .PDF)
6) bird brained... The amazing world of our fine-feathered friends proves that birds aren’t just for old folks anymore. 22 minutes
Teaching Guide (513KB .PDF)
7) applied here... A scientific look at what questions FBI investigators must try to answer during a criminal investigation. 20 minutes
Teaching Guide (1.6MB .PDF)
Biodiversity: Wild About Life
This four-part docu-drama is about four teenagers who discover the value of the variety of life on earth. From wolves and plants to wetlands and deserts, the teenagers are inspired by positive actions to safeguard it. Suitable for middle, junior and senior high school grade levels.
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 A Home for Pearl
This award-winning four-part video series helps school children learn the importance of habitat by telling the story of an injured bald eagle named Pearl who is nursed back to health by caring youngsters. Suitable for elementary and middle grade levels.
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Since Phillips Petroleum Co., now ConocoPhillips, entered the field of educational film series in 1976, it adopted a philosophy that has remained essentially unchanged to this day. In essence, that philosophy is:
- The content of the programs will be determined primarily by outside experts, selected for their objectivity, stature in their fields and knowledge of the needs of teachers and students.
- Only knowledgeable, highly skilled writers, directors and producers will be selected to create the programs.
- The programs will be free and easily accessible to any public school in the country, including the states that are outside of ConocoPhillips' marketing area.
- The programs will focus on critical classroom needs and not on forwarding ConocoPhillips' interests or promoting its products. Company acknowledgement will be limited to brief visual identification at the beginning or end of each program.
- Free written materials, including teacher's guides and other learning aids, will be made available with every program to reinforce concepts through hands-on exercises and experiments.
- Whenever possible, ConocoPhillips will partner with a nationally recognized body, such as MATHCOUNTS and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to produce and distribute programs.
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