Positives

• This timeline will leave students with a well-rounded understanding of the historical events that led to America's dependence on oil.
• The resource is well organized and broken down in a way that is easy to manage and understand.
• Many interesting images are included, as well as external links to primary sources and additional information.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with American and world history before working with this resource, specifically after World War I. 
  

Differentiation

• Cross-curricular connections could be made in economics and math classes to work with the graphs and data for oil prices and consumption. 
• This resource lends itself well to a jigsaw activity. Have students work individually or in pairs on a section of entries from the timeline. Their task is to become experts on their section and to distill the information they learned into a few sentences. The class can then present their learning and chart it digitally.
  • As a fun extension, have students use the photo from their section or entry to create a faux social media post to accompany what they wrote. What hashtags, trending music, captions, or accounts would the image work with on their favorite platform?
• Other related resources include this interactive graph about American's beliefs around climate change, this video about the cost of carbon, and this video about the finite nature of fossil fuels.