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Do It Yourself: Matter & Energy Interaction Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students complete a KWL chart describing their knowledge or renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. They examine the Stirling Engine which is an external combustion engine and compare it to a Hero's Engine. They participate in a...
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What are Alternative Fuels? -- Gas Laws in Action/Propane Investigation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars identify the physical properties of propane by applying the gas laws to them. They compare and contrast Charles's and Boyle's gas laws and complete problems using them. They discuss their answers to end the lesson.
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Running on Renewables

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners investigate the costs and benefits of switching their school to sustainable technology energy production. They use software called HOMER developed by the National Renewable Energy Lab to do the cost/ benefit analysis. They then...
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Harnessing Wind

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the ways that engineers study and harness the wind. They study the different kinds of winds and how to measure wind direction. In addition, students learn how air pressure creates winds and how engineers build and test...
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Nuclear Energy - Is it a Friend or Foe?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You can provide your students with content knowledge and hone critical thinking skills with these timely lesson plans on nuclear energy.
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Sun Prints

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss energy and where they can find it. They will then discuss the sun and how it functions as an energy source. Next, students get a piece of black paper and some coins. They go outside and make a design with the coins on...
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Who's Got Your Power

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine and map local sources of energy. They conduct Internet research on their local utility company, identify where their utility company obtains energy, graph the data, and label a map of power plant locations in their state.
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Jeopardy

For Teachers 6th
Power, matter, and energy sources are the subjects of this Jeopardy game. It provides a review of general science topics and expects students to know the basic details of machines, matter types, and some energy types. This...
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Language Arts: Gathering the Appropriate Information

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are able to use the library and/or computer lab to research reliable information sources supporting arguments being put forward in the position paper. They are able to find examples of mission statements from various...
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Do Plants Need Sunlight?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners investigate whether plants need sunlight to survive. In this plant lesson, students experiment with plants to learn about chlorophyll that plants get from light sources.
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Energy in Today's Global Society

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain how heat is used to generate and produce electricity.  In this energy lesson plan students complete several activities that show them about the different fuels used for heating. 
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Will the Lights Go Out?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners diagram nuclear power plant, describe process for generating electrical power, discuss nuclear disasters in the 20th century, and draw conclusion about value of nuclear power for the future.
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Sun Power

For Students 6th - 12th
In this energy worksheet, learners study an illustration to identify 4 renewable and 4 nonrenewable sources of energy. This worksheet has 9 short answer questions.
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Wind Power! 2

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore how engineers transform wind energy into electrical energy by building their own miniature wind turbines and measuring the electrical current it produces. They see how design and position affect the electrical...
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Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 12th
In this energy learning exercise, students read about the Law of Conservation of Energy and compare the 6 forms of energy. Then students complete 20 matching, 2 short answer, and 6 word problems.
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Methods of Power- Hybrids

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students list the reasons why people chose hybrid cars over traditional cars. In this technology lesson, students create a poster describing how hybrid cars work. They discuss ways to save fuel and improve a car's efficiency.
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"Blow, Wind, Blow" - Wind Power

For Students 5th - 8th
In this renewable energy worksheet, students learn about wind power. They then answer the 2 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Energy Conservation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students complete a variety of activities as they examine forms of energy, use of energy, different technologies to harness energy and the ethical implications of these sources and technologies.
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Power Generation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine energy issues. In this environmental stewardship instructional activity, students discuss nuclear power options. Students also discuss energy consumption and create energy reduction guides for students their own age....
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Energy and Resources

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify renewable and nonrenewable resources. In this energy lesson, students explore the consumption issues regarding oil use and consider methods of resource management. Students research alternative resources and present...
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Thinking about Energy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine their understandings about energy concepts by completing an online survey. Students participate in a class discussion about their uses of resources and the differences between perpetual, renewable, and...
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Energy Is Everywhere

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars determine the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources and identify the different forms of energy. They discuss life without energy and where energy comes from before reading an article about the different...
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Energy Plans and their Impact on You

For Students 6th - 8th
For this energy worksheet, learners read articles on the internet about energy and answer short answer questions. Students answer 10 questions total.
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Energy from Atoms

For Students 7th - 9th
In this energy from atoms worksheet, students match 10 sentences to given terms related to nuclear energy, electricity, fission, and nuclear reactions. They also answer 3 questions about nuclear waste and atomic reactions.

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