TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: National Grid Fully Charged
The National Grid is a high-voltage electric power transmission network, connecting power stations and 340+ substations ensuring supply and demand is in the balance. Nigel Williams speaks to Robert Llewellyn about how the National Grid...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Power to the People
Students read and evaluate descriptions of how people live "off the grid" using solar power and come to understand better the degree to which that lifestyle is or is not truly independent of technological, economic and cultural...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Energy
Through nine lessons, students are introduced to a range of energy types--electrical, light, sound and thermal-as well as the renewable energy sources of wind, hydro (water) and solar power. Subjects range from understanding that the...
NBC
Nbc: How the Grid Powers a Continent
Read here about "The Grid," the largest machine ever built by humans. The Grid is he giant network of high-voltage power transmission wires that covers the entire United States and much of Canada.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get Charged!
Young scholars are introduced to the idea of electrical energy. They learn about the relationships between charge, voltage, current and resistance. They discover that electrical energy is the form of energy that powers most of their...
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Satellites Orbit the Sun to Better Predict Solar Storms
For the first time, NASA scientists have generated a full image of the sun, front and back, using twin orbiting satellites. The new view of Earth's star will allow for the study of solar weather events like coronal mass ejections that...
Other
Texas Wide Open for Business: The Texas Renewable Energy Industry [Pdf]
A 34-page report examining renewable energy sources in use in Texas. It looks at how Texas compares with the rest of the world, the companies investing in the Texas energy industry, the Texas electricity grid, government initiatives,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Blackout!
Students read news reports and first-person accounts to imagine what it would be like to be in a blackout in a large city. They follow news reports as if the event were unfolding in real-time and keep weblogs or journals of their...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Deciding Your City's Energy Future
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Energy Transfer in Electric Circuits
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn about the economic importance of calculating energy consumption, and are introduced to the equations used for measuring the electricity in an electric...