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Alternative Energy and Energy Saving Game
In this alternative energy and energy saving game instructional activity, students create a multimedia game to present facts and influence people's behaviors about alternative energy sources, with links to helpful web resources.
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Energy Internet Activity
In this energy Internet activity worksheet, students use links to websites to answer 16 questions about energy use. This page has numerous links to helpful web resources.
Texas State Energy Conservation Office
Cost-Effective Buying
Middle school energy experts read about the relationship between energy use and cost-efficiency. Then they work through a couple of scenarios to determine which approach is more cost-effective.
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Energy Crossword Puzzle
In this energy crossword worksheet, students read 36 clues pertaining to energy conservation. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank.
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Energy Saving Survey - Chart - Take Action Activity
In this saving energy worksheet, learners survey the class about saving energy, examine an energy chart, and answer short answer questions. Students complete 4 tasks.
Texas State Energy Conservation Office
Investigation: Building a Parabolic-Trough Collector
Amateurs of alternative energy build a mini parabolic-trough solar energy collector and use it to heat water. Temperature is recorded over a three-minute period and the data is graphed and analyzed. Note that in order to paint aquarium...
Teach Engineering
Lighting in My Classroom Survey
How much energy does it take to light a room? Class members calculate the total wattage it takes to light the classroom. Through calculations, responsible scientists determine the cost of energy for the year, then figure out...
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Saving on Home Energy Use Activity
In this saving energy worksheet, students click on the links to learn about saving energy and then answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 questions total.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Chemical Reactions and Electricity
After a discussion of chemical reactions and electricity, scholars break into groups and follow a scripted activity to discover if fruit can power a clock. After a concluding discussion, the class a presented with a challenge.
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Family Member
In this worksheet on family members, students describe what is meant by family, their duty to family, and family meetings. In addition, they create a budget for their family for one month keeping track of all expenses for 7 days....
US Energy Information Administration
Primary Activity: Energy and Machines
Conservation kids take this printable home, draw a picture of their bedrooms, then cut out and paste pictures into the drawing to show what energy-using appliances are present. This assignment is a very practical way to wrap up a unit on...
American Physiological Society
Feeling the Heat
How do the changing seasons affect the homes where we live? This question is at the forefront of engineering and design projects. Challenge your physical science class to step into the role of an architect to build a model home...
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September Science Internet Activity
In this energy learning exercise, students click on the links in the questions about energy to find the answers to the questions and then come back and answer the questions. Students answer 12 questions total.
Macmillan Education
Networking
"It's not what you know, it's who you know." Learners discuss and analyze this age-old adage by completing life skills worksheets, collaborative activities, and discussions regarding the nature of networking and how it may improve future...
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Groovin' News Activity Sheet
In these recycling worksheets, students complete several activities to learn about recycling. Students complete a word search, word scramble, bar graph, pie chart, research project, class project, and individual project for recycling.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Heat Transfer
Use an exciting role play activity to teach young chemists about the importance of heat transfer in maintaining homeostasis. They assume the role of a dog sled owner who has been abandoned and must fend for themselves with only a...
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Energy Savers and Energy Wasters
For this recognizing energy savers and energy wasters worksheet, students look at examples of pictures with sentences, and identify the examples that save more energy and the energy saver. Students complete eight activities.
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Saving on Lighting Energy Activity
In this saving energy instructional activity, students compare and contrast the effectiveness of compact fluorescent lighting, incandescent light bulbs, and light emitting diodes.
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Help Save the Polar Bear
In this ecology awareness worksheet, learners read a poem written on a polar bear's tummy that tells how changing light bulbs and saving energy will help save the polar bear and then color the bear. Students color 1 picture.
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Mission 7: Saving Energy
In these saving energy worksheets, students learn about energy and how to conserve it. Students complete a 22 page packet for the activity.
NASA
Speaking in Phases
Hear from deep space. Pupils learn how satellites transfer information back to Earth. They learn about three different ways to modulate radio waves and how a satellite sends information with only 0s and 1s. Using sound, class members...
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School Survey
In this school energy worksheet, students read the questions about school's energy sources, the way school's can recycle, and how energy can be wasted or saved in schools.
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The Sun - Renewable Energy Source
For this sun worksheet, students click on the links to read about the sun and then answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 questions.
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National Hanging Out Day
In this National Hanging Out Day worksheet, students complete activities including reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, correct word choosing, multiple choice, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write questions,...