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Power Lesson Plans
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Students explore how work and energy create power. They complete activities involving simple machines, energy, energy conversion, and the role of conductors and insulators. They choose from a menu of options the activities they would like to complete to demonstrate their understanding.
Students work together to discover how a waterwheel works. They create their own waterwheel and calculate the power created. They discover the need for this type of information by engineers to build dams.
Young scholars use a two-liter bottle, dowel rod and index cards to design and construct a water wheel. They then calculate the power created and measure the work done by the water wheel in Watts and Joules.
Students experiment to show work and power while observing that entropy is a process that occurs when work occurs. They determine that entropy is equal to the disorder in a system and always increases when work is done.
Students review the engineering design process and discuss a variety of windmills, focusing on the different materials used in the construction and the type of work each windmill does and they use simple materials to build their own windmills.
Students explore Victor Power using the Internet and primary source documents.
Students take on the role of members of a concerned citizens group and discuss the transportation of spent-fuel rods from a local nuclear power plant and the safety issues that surround the power plant. Students work in groups to write a research paper and create a PowerPoint presentation addressing the safety issues surrounding the power plant.
Students investigate work and power. In this energy instructional activity, students use the scientific method process to explore how much work and power it takes for a person to climb a stair case.
Students study the concept of separation of powers. They recognize how the Constitution provides for separation of powers and categorize public officials into one of three branches of government. Students do a role play and see if they hear anything out of the ordinary.
What a wonderful way to explore wind power! Through this lesson, learners get a background in the history of wind power, create their own wind turbine, and the test their designs. This is a terrific way to tie scientific principles to real life examples.
