PBS
America's Infrastructure: Miller Center National Discussion Debate Series
Junior high and high school learners study infrastructure and its relationship to the current economy. They review handouts, watch a PBS clip, and review case studies in order to answer provided questions and role play over...
Curated OER
TE Activity: The Trouble with Topos
Students study the uses of topographical maps including the many forms that they take. They discover that the map features show its intended use such as city maps, wilderness maps, and state maps. They complete a worksheet in which they...
Curated OER
The Efficient City
Students research and create a realistic plan for energy efficiency. In this investigative lesson plan students answer questions and fill out a worksheet on energy.
Curated OER
Ionocraft Lifter
Students explore the different types of lifters through a series of activities. In this physics instructional activity, students explain the mechanics involved in the lifter designs. They compare aluminum versus zinc lifters.
Curated OER
Blast's Cosmic Carnival
Young scholars, after analyzing the history of a concentrator, model how a Genesis spacecraft concentrator works by playing a game. In groups of three or four, after being given materials to work with, are challenged to roll the rubber...
Curated OER
Math Bingo!
Learners discover how to change units of measurement by multiplication and division applications. They play math bingo solving multiplication and division problems. Students review their anwers by checking them in class.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Electrical Grid
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains what an electrical grid is and the role of power plants, transmission lines, and electric substations.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Off the Grid
Students learn and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of renewable and non-renewable energy sources. They also learn about our nation's electric power grid and what it means for a residential home to be "off the grid."
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Grid
The class forms a "Presidential Task Force" for a week, empowered by the president to find answers and make recommendations concerning the future of the national power grid. Task force members conduct daily debriefings with their...
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State Energy Conservation Office-Texas
State Energy Conservation Office: Learning About Photovoltaic Systems [Pdf]
Explains how photovoltaic systems work and how Texas homeowners are using them. Discusses how a homeowner can use solar energy and still be on the electricity grid system.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Off the Grid
This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain presents users with three hypothetical scenarios in which they are challenged to design a wind power system that will meet their electrical needs.
Other
Wbur: New England's Electric Power Grid Is Undergoing a Transformation
This article discusses New England's developing hybrid power grid, a network that relies on a variety of energy resources, including fuels and alternative energy sources and technologies. The ongoing transformation to renewable energy is...
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...
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...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Power Distributors and Dispatcher
Science Buddies profiles careers you perhaps never even considered. Do you know what a power distributor and dispatcher does? Someone has to control the flow of electricity along the transmission lines to be sure nothing takes the power...
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!
Students 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 household...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Deciding Your City's Energy Future
Learners 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.
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...
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: Let the Sun Shine!
Students learn how the sun can be used for energy. They learn about passive solar heating, lighting and cooking, and active solar engineering technologies (such as photovoltaic arrays and concentrating mirrors) that generate electricity....
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Power Source
In this activity, small groups of students are asked to make concept sketches that track the source of electrical power as far back as they can conceive. The concept sketches reveal students' prior conceptions of the power grid and...
George Mason University
Chnm: Critical Infrastructure Protection Oral History Project
Project documents the history of the nation's efforts to protect what has come to be called critical infrastructure--the systems and structures that are vital to the smooth and safe functioning of our economy, society, and way of life.
Kansas Historical Society
Kansapedia: Rural Electrification
As part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was the expansion of electric lines across rural America. This article explains why it was important to Kansas farmers and how they could afford to hook up to the grid.