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Handout
Energy4Me

Energy4me: Groundwater Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about groundwater safety when it comes to hydraulic fracturing.
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Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Robot Sketcher

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this awesome tool that animates a robot that contains sliding arms (like those used in hydraulics) and rotating arms like those used in rotary motors. The exploration asks students to consider how to find the area drawn by the...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Fluid Power Basics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about the basic fundamental concepts regarding fluid power, which includes both pneumatic, which utilize gas, and hydraulic, which utilize liquid, systems. Both systems contain four basic components: a reservoir, a pump or...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Richard Birdsall Rogers: Life and Times of a Canadian Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
Richard Birdsall Rogers played a significant role as an engineer in designing the Peterborough Hydraulic lift lock in Peterborough.
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Activity
National Geographic

National Geographic: Evaluating Natural Gas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students examines the benefits and the environmental risks of extracting natural gas from shale. Includes handouts, a vocabulary list with definitions, and an interactive on how gas is extracted from shale.
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Activity
National Geographic

National Geographic: Natural Gas: A Cleaner Energy Solution?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this activity, students read informational text on natural gas and compare it to other fossil fuels for its greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact. They then prepare a pro or con position on whether natural gas is good...
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Latex Tubing and Hybrid Vehicles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit gives students the opportunity to make use of linear models in order to make predictions based on real-world data. Students experience how engineers address incredible and important design challenges through the use of linear...
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Website
Other

Museum of Ancient Greek Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a virtual exhibition of inventions from ancient Greece that have been reconstructed by Kostas Kotsanas after over two decades of study and research. Click on 'The Museum' link at the top of the page to read an explanation and to...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Automotive Brakes Power Assist Units

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will orient the student to the operation of vacuum operated and hydraulically assisted power booster units. The student will be able to effectively diagnose and repair problems with these systems at the conclusion of the lesson.
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Handout
Energy4Me

Energy4me: Fracturing Fluid

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how fracturing fluid is an essential component of the shale gas extraction process.
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Handout
Energy4Me

Energy4me: Meet the Society of Petroleum Engineers Experts

For Students 9th - 10th
Hear from the Society of Petroleum Engineers' team of Energy Experts, composed of engineers and industry specialists.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Horsepower Formula

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what is meant by horsepower, where the term originated, and demonstrates how to use the formulas for calculating the horsepower of a car and an electric motor. Conversion formulas are also provided. Includes interactive...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Fracking Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
How does fracking work and why is it a source of such heated controversy? Mia Nacamulli explains the ins and outs of fracking.
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Article
University of Virginia

Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
Aquae Urbis Romae: the Waters of the City of Rome is a cartographic history of nearly 2800 years of water infrastructure and urban development in Rome. Water is a living system that includes natural features (springs, the Tiber River,...
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Handout
Other

The Gold Rush: Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the environmental impact the changing technology of gold mining inflicted on California and the economic impact on the miners.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Unesco: Spain: Las Medulas

For Students 9th - 10th
In the 1st century A.D. the Roman Imperial authorities began to exploit the gold deposits of this region in north-west Spain, using a technique based on hydraulic power. After two centuries of working the deposits, the Romans withdrew,...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Unesco: Netherlands: Defence Line of Amsterdam

For Students 9th - 10th
Extending 135 km around the city of Amsterdam, this defence line (built between 1883 and 1920) is the only example of a fortification based on the principle of controlling the waters. Since the 16th century, the people of the Netherlands...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Unesco: Syria: Ancient Villages of Northern Syria

For Students 9th - 10th
Some 40 villages grouped in eight parks situated in north-western Syria provide remarkable testimony to rural life in late Antiquity and during the Byzantine period. Abandoned in the 8th to 10th centuries, the villages, which date from...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Unesco: Spain: Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias

For Students 9th - 10th
In the 9th century the flame of Christianity was kept alive in the Iberian peninsula in the tiny Kingdom of the Asturias. Here an innovative pre-Romanesque architectural style was created that was to play a significant role in the...
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Website
MadSci Network

The Mad Scientist Network: How Is a Jet Engine Started?

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a question and answer format, this page explains the details of how a jet engine can be started. The different types of starters and when they are usually used is discussed.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Eustachio Manfredi (1674 1739)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Eustachio Manfredi from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Handout
Energy4Me

Energy4me: How Fracturing Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how the process of fracturing uses a fluid to fracture rocks for oil and natural gas extraction.
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Handout
Energy4Me

Energy4me: Air Quality

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how the production of natural gas and oil can result in the release of hydrocarbons and other emissions into the air.

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