Lesson Plan
PBS

NOVA Energy Lab Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Can our energy resources keep up with our ever-growing population? Science scholars learn the basics of energy and Earth's energy resources during an electrifying lesson. The resource combines video clips and an engineering design...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fuel Cell Experimentation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
With rising oil prices and increasing concerns over global warming, the pressure is on for engineers to develop alternative sources of energy. Among the new technologies being developed are hydrogen fuel cells, which young scientists...
Interactive
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: 3 M Wind Energy Virtual Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you think you can design a wind turbine that supplies energy to 400 homes at the highest efficiency and lowest cost? Try your hand at turbine design in this interactive activity that allows you design, build, and test a device to...
Activity
Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Centre: Spark!lab: Make Your Own Wind Turbine

For Students 3rd - 8th
A wind turbine is a machine that captures the force of the wind to produce electricity. Learn how to make a wind turbine as a student or as a teacher. An experiment can be downloaded.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Solving the Storage Problem Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
Try this quiz about energy storage technologies.