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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine America's dependence on oil. They read an article, research how gas prices are established, and create and conduct a survey regarding people's knowledge of gas and gas prices. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students investigate the evidence and consequences of global warming. They read and discuss an article, conduct a debate, evaluate their community's climate statistics, log their gas consumption for a week, and develop a panel discussion on fossil fuels. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify major contributors to the U.S. energy makeup, recognize trends in energy consumption, express opinions on alternative energy sources, and evaluate positive and negative attributes of the alternative energies in relation to US foreign pol Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students compare/contrast natural gas to wind power. They read a handout and answer discussion questions, construct a model windmill, graph how changes in the windmill's distance and angle affect the rotations per minute, and solve calculations. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students discuss the reasons why oil and gas are the United States' main source of energy. In groups, they use the internet to research how the resources are formed and the amount of consumption by the United States. They choose books from a reading list to identify careers in this field of study. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students demonstrate how bromthymol blue is used to indicate presence of CO2 in gas. They design their own experiments to test gases which are suspected of containing CO2. Students discover a cause effect relationship between fuel consumption and atmospheric pollution. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students are given a cookie each. When the signal is given, they begin eating the cookies. Each student must raise a hand and keep it raised when he or she is finished counting the hands raised every 15 seconds until all the cookies are eaten until all the hands are raised. They create a graph indicating how many pupils finished eating every 15 seconds. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students discuss if they have heard anything at home or in the news about the price of gasoline. They then discuss terms from the News Word Box and complete the sentences. They then read and discuss the article. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students discuss concerns about prom night concerning alcohol and drug consumption by evaluating different scenarios that could occur on that night. They examine dilemmas faced by attendees, chaperons, parents and law enforcement officers and determine ways to limit drug and alcohol consumption by teens. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students develop critical thinking and awareness about the complexity of natural resource use, wealth distribution, population densities, poverty, and the environment. They think about people living in different parts of the world and about the varying effects of population vs. consumption in rich and poor countries. Full Review »
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