Curated OER
Windsor Opposes Waste - WOW!
Learners participate in paper recycling. They are taught to environmental awareness of recycling and its importance in their future. Students discuss and identify the problems of how they can minimize waste. They brainstorm suggestions...
Curated OER
Drawing on Kenaf
Students explore kenaf, a tree-free paper. For this environmental issues lesson, students draw pictures following a presentation about the origin and "eco-friendly" nature of kenaf.
Curated OER
Breaking News English: Rock Star Sting Fights Against Brazilian Dam
In this English worksheet, students read "Rock Star Sting Fights Against Brazilian Dam," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
Curated OER
Make a Dried Bouquet
Students examine how drying flowers was a popular hobby for Colonial women during the Colonial era in America. They read and discuss an instruction sheet, and create dried-flower bouquets that are hung upside down and tied with a string.
Other
Alliance to Save Energy: A Home Energy Audit
This activity allows students to become building inspectors, identifying features that can help or hurt energy conservation.
US Department of Energy
U.s. Department of Energy: Energy Savers
Find information on everything from buying energy-efficient products to using the proper landscaping for particular climates to conserve resources. Starting with an energy assessment, this website will help users reduce their consumption...
Other
First Energy: The Electric Avenue
A comprehensive look at energy ranging from types of energy to the exploration of electricity. Learning puzzles and games are included.
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Save Energy
Looks at four different ways people can save energy - through energy efficiency, recycling, planting trees, and protecting wildlife.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Energy Saving Survey Take Action
Students will explore ways that people can conserve energy. Beginning with a classroom survey, students research, consider changes that can be made, and evaluate which changes will be easier to do than others and explain why.
Other
Alliance to Save Energy: Educator Lesson Plans
A series of teacher lesson plans for various grade levels. Topics pertain to insulation (among other things) and other energy conservation and energy efficiency topics. Can be easily adapted for a student project or lab investigation.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Energy Conservation
Students are introduced to the idea that energy use impacts the environment and our wallets. They discuss different types of renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, as well as the impacts of energy consumption. Through a series of...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Cayman Islands: What Is Energy Conservation?
Renewable and nonrenewable energy sources are described, different types of energy, and how energy can be conserved.
Other
California Energy Commission: Games: Watt's That?! Jr.
This site from California Energy Commission provides six different games about energy in which you may play by yourself or against an opponent to answer trivia questions.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: We Save Energy at Home
A family shares the different ways that they conserve energy. Includes audio narration.
The Tech Interactive
The Tech Museum of Innovation: Save the Hiker [Pdf]
Can you build a device that will deliver life-saving treatment to someone in a hazardous situation? During this instructional activity, young scholars will learn how energy is converted and transferred between objects. Working in groups...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Energy Conservation: Off, On, Off
Learn about light switches and how to save electricity when they are turned off. Book includes audio narration in nine additional languages with text in English.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Energy Conservation Contract
Students learn about saving energy and encourage their families to conserve in this outreach activity.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Energy Conservation: Let's Be Energy Friendly!
A family shows some of the ways they reduce their energy use. Book includes audio narration in nine additional languages with text in English.
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas
State Energy Conservation Office: Grounded Coupled Heat Pumps [Pdf]
Explains how a heat pump system works, and how a ground-coupled system improves its efficiency and saves money.
Other
Abc Da Energia
ABC Da Energia describes the many ways that energy can be obtained and conserved. It explains different sources of energy, how each works, and how energy can be saved in our daily lives. Interactive energy-saving activities and games...
Other
California Energy Commission: Saving Time, Saving Energy
The California Energy Commission explains the history of Daylight Saving Time and why we "spring forward, fall back." There is lots of trivia included about time, a chart giving the start and end dates through 2015, and links to much...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be an Energy Saver
This lesson focuses on the scarce and non-renewable nature of fossil fuels in order to stimulate student thinking about energy conservation. It emphasizes the fact that saving energy can be good for the wallet as well as the earth's...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Spare a Watt, Save a Lot
In this science fair project, you will investigate the different uses of electricity in your home. By identifying appliances, and determining how much energy they use, as well as which are phantom loaders, you can determine if there are...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Green Your Pc: Help Your Computer Save Power
Check out this science fair project to determine how much power your PC really uses, and if it is an energy hog, how you can reduce its appetite for energy. You will learn how to profile and streamline your computer's power usage, while...