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Kid Wind Project: Teacher Resources
A collection of inquiry-based and hands-on activities to introduce students to wind energy. Includes PowerPoints, labs, and videos.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Cars From the Future
Students learn about air pollution caused by cars and what engineers are doing to try to help with the problem. Students then design their own environmentally friendly car and give a presentation to experience how engineers have to be...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Drive It Green [Pdf]
In this lesson, plan students design greener transportation solutions for their community. Lesson contains three parts that ask students to look at their impact on the environment.
NOAA
Noaa: Ocean Explorer: The Methane Circus
In this activity students will understand the events occuring during the Cambrian explosion. They will also begin to explain how methane hydrates contribute to global warming. Finally, they will discuss links between methane hydrates...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Wind Power O Logy Card
OLogy cards are like virtual baseball cards about all kinds of science topics. This card is about wind power. See if you can answer a few questions when you're done reading.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environment
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Solar House
In this What's Up in the Environment? video segment, an electrical engineer in Virginia and his 13-year-old son explain how they produce electricity in their home. [3:58]
Scientific American
Scientific American: Harness Hydrogen Fuel From Plants
This article, published by Scientific American (August 29, 2002), explores the successful manufacturing of hydrogen from a glucose solution derived from biomass. Such a fuel source, if proven practical, could easily power hydrogen...
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Independent Television Service: World Without Oil: Lesson Plans
Ten lessons that challenge students to consider the possible reality of a world without oil.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Wind Power Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about wind energy. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Hybrid Automobiles
Examine a car engine illustration to discover the relationship between a motor and a generator. List the pros and cons of hybrid cars, and create a poster on series hybrid cars, parallel hybrid cars or how hybrid cars are different from...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Hybrid Vehicles Facts
Learn how hybrid cars work and the advantages and disadvantages of driving one.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Hydropower
Learn the history of the use of hydroelectricity, and find out how it works to convert water power into electrical power.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Antimatter Matters
Antimatter, the charge reversed equivalent of matter, has captured the imaginations of science fiction fans for years as a perfectly efficient form of energy. While normal matter consists of atoms with negatively charged electrons...
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Peak Oil: Non Renewable Resources Depletion Effects
A collection of graphs, tables, and diagrams that illustrate the global impact of natural resource depletion. (Published 2014)
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: To Drill or Not to Drill? Case Study in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
This lesson intends to increase young scholars' knowledge of a variety of topics through a real world environmental topic.
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