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Christian Science Monitor

Cs Monitor: Why One Town in Oil Rich Texas Is Ditching Fossil Fuels

For Students 9th - 10th
The city of Georgetown in Texas has decided that it is more economically feasible for them to meet their energy needs using renewable energy resources. Learn the rationale behind this unusual decision in an oil-rich state. (Published:...
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Website
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Burning Biofuels: Comparing Nonrenewable and Renewable Fuels

For Students 9th - 10th
Will using agrofuel offer a substantial alternative to using fossil fuel? With this experiment you can compare the amount of heat energy released by agrofuel and fossil fuel. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Atmospheric Changes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson unit on the effects of fossil fuel burning on the atmosphere. Includes particulates with good materials balance.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Biofuels and Bioprospecting for Beginners

For Students 9th - 10th
Biofuels can provide energy without the reliance on environmentally harmful fossils fuels, but scientists are still searching for a plentiful source. Craig A. Kohn demonstrates how cellulose, the naturally abundant tough walls of plant...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering for the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young students are introduced to the complex systems of the Earth through numerous lessons on its natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms. Key earth science topics include rocks, soils and minerals, water and natural...
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Nature Research

Nature Education: Energy Economics in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses how plants and microorganisms, until recently, have mostly controlled how much carbon dioxide is released into an ecosystem, and explains how this process works. Humans' burning of fossil fuels has upset the...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Rising Co2! What Can We Do?

For Students 3rd - 5th
With this resource, students learn how much fossil fuel emissions have increased since 1600 by exploring a graph showing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Then answer questions and read facts about climate change over the centuries....
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

The National Academies: Our Energy Sources: Natural Gas

For Students 9th - 10th
Energy production from natural gas is less destructive to the environment than energy produced from coal, but it is still produced from fossil fuels. While advances have been made in reducing its detrimental effects, our resources are...
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Energy

For Students 6th - 8th
Seven hands-on lessons module where students learn about energy. These inquiry-based explorations investigate where energy resources come from and how they are converted into electricity, how fossil fuels form, the importance of...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Finding the Carbon in Sugar

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn that fossil fuels release energy when they are burned, and this takes the forms of light, heat, gases, etc. In this instructional activity they explore combustion with a candle and with sugar. The instructional activity...
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Peek Inside the World's First Carbon Neutral City

For Students 3rd - 8th
A new kind of city is being built in the Arab desert. Read about the unique engineering that is creating Masdar, a "city of the future" which doesn't use fossil fuels.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Energy Use and Energy Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive learning module will focus on the fundamentals of energy and energy sources, renewable and nonrenewable, that support the human population. Students will also explore our dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuels to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rolling Blackouts & Environmental Impact

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The goal is for the students to understand the environmental design considerations required when generating electricity. The electric power that we use every day at home and work is generated by a variety of power plants. Power plants...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Using Heat From the Sun

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this activity, students will first discuss where energy comes from, including sources such as fossil fuels, nuclear, and such renewable technologies as solar. After this initial exploration, students will investigate the three main...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Deciding Your City's Energy Future

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about fossil fuels and renewable energy sources to help them decide which type of energy should be used to power a city's electric grid in the coming decades.
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Handout
National Geographic

National Geographic: Encyclopedic Entry: Non Renewable Energy

For Students 3rd - 8th
A good primer on non-renewable energy sources. Covers the overall advantages and disadvantages, and discusses the different types and their pros and cons. Includes a slideshow with captions.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy in Our Lives Carousel

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity is a way for students to discover that they already know a lot about energy through their own life experiences. As active consumers of various forms of energy, they are aware of energy purchases for electricity, home...
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Curated OER

Fossil Fuels

For Students Pre-K - 1st
fossil fuels
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Alternative Energy Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Society is beginning to recognize the limited supply of fossil fuels. In this project, students will investigate alternative energy sources. Conservation of resources is discussed and while conservation is an important step, at some...
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Activity
US Department of Energy

Natural Gas: Fueling the Blue Flame

For Students 9th - 10th
Natural gas is a colorless and odorless fossil fuel that is used in almost half the homes for heat. Learn more about this non-renewable energy resource.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Carbon Dioxide: The Heat Is On

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will observe the effect of the gases resulting from a burned fossil fuel on the heat absorption of air and determine the ability of phytoplankton to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. This activity is...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Harvesting Oil From the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students investigate sources of fossil fuels, particularly oil. Students will learn how engineers and scientists look for oil by taking core samples from a model of the Earth. Also, students will explore and analyze oil...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Heating and Cooling Curves

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the interactive cooling curve graph as a tool to answer two challenge questions about temperature change in the fossil fuel, Naphthalene.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can 100% Renewable Energy Power the World?

For Students 9th - 10th
Why don't we exchange our fossil fuel dependence for existence based only on renewables? Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei describe the challenges.

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