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Wisconsin K 12 Energy Education Program (Keep)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The mission of KEEP is to improve energy education in Wisconsin's schools. It provides teachers access to resources, activities and web support for many hands-on lessons for all grade levels.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Energy and Work Amusement Park Style

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lesson presenting energy and work. It covers: types of energy, forms of energy, work, law of conservation of energy, and renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. In the activities section, one will find links to Internet...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Us Energy Production and Consumption

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity students will compare and contrast regional energy production of 5 different US regions, including California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. Students will also analyze production and...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Energy Enigma

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students act as detectives and research clues to uncover energy facts. This cooperative learning activity accesses language arts and critical thinking skills as students try to conceal their own energy source while guessing the opposing...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Cruise Ship: What Sort of Energy Is Provided by Water?

For Students 1st - 3rd
Shana is learning about water. Help her discover all the different ways water can provide us with energy.
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Other

New Talk: Is Nuclear Power Essential to Climate Change and Energy Independence?

For Students 9th - 10th
New Talk provides an online forum where a panel of non partisan experts in their field discuss relevant domestic issues of today. This discussion focuses on nuclear power, climate change, and energy independence. Readers can comment, but...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Cyprus Dancing School: What Sort of Energy Is Provided by the Wind?

For Students 1st - 3rd
Chara is finding out a lot about the wind and how it can provide energy to us. Join her in Cyprus to learn along with her.
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US Department of Energy

U.s. Department of Energy: Solar Energy Technologies Program: Solar Multimedia

For Students 9th - 10th
Browse and download from this multimedia collection which contains photographs, videos, B-roll, graphics, and animations related to solar technologies, research, and projects.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Environment for Kids: Wave and Tidal Energy

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about wave and tidal energy and how this renewable power can help the environment. Teach students about this new technology.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Environment for Kids: Geothermal Energy

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about geothermal energy and how this renewable power can help the environment. Teach students about heat pumps and electric plants.
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State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

Seco: Biomass: Nature's Most Flexible Energy Resource [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th
Sources of biomass fuel are described, ways it is used, and the economic opportunities available to Texas farmers and industries that produce biomass fuels.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Zero Energy Housing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate passive solar building design with a focus solely on heating. They learn how insulation, window placement, thermal mass, surface colors, and site orientation play important roles in passive solar heating. They use...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Powering the Future

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity tests problem-solving skills while introducing a card exercise which allows students to solve real problems and make decisions about how best to provide electrical power to their country. Students must make choices between...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Greenewables

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students form expert engineering teams working for the (fictional) alternative energy consulting firm, Greenewables, Inc. Each team specializes in a form of renewable energy used to generate electrical power: passive solar, solar...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Never Ending Supply Quiz

For Students 4th - 6th
Try this quiz about renewable energy sources.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: High Altitude Wind Energy From Kites!

For Students 9th - 10th
In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy. [5:22]
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Christian Science Monitor

Cs Monitor: Why One Town in Oil Rich Texas Is Ditching Fossil Fuels

For Students 9th - 10th
The city of Georgetown in Texas has decided that it is more economically feasible for them to meet their energy needs using renewable energy resources. Learn the rationale behind this unusual decision in an oil-rich state. (Published:...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Re Thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
There's a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. 'Re-Thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works- designing products that can be 'made to be...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Thar She Blows!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about wind as a source of renewable energy and explore the advantages and disadvantages wind turbines and wind farms. They also learn about the effectiveness of wind turbines in varying weather conditions and how engineers...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Geothermal Power

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Presents the way geothermal energy is harnessed and some of its benefits and costs. Downloadable resources are also available.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Leaky Clues to Dam Design: How Reservoir Height Affects Hydroel

For Students 6th - 8th
It's hard to believe that the same water that you use every day to quench your thirst, cook with, bathe in, swim in, and wash your clothes and dishes, is capable of another trick-it can make electricity. Electricity can be generated...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Zero Energy Housing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars investigate passive solar building design with a focus solely on heating. Then they design and build their own model houses, and test them for thermal gains and losses during a simulated day and night.
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Other

Peak Oil: Non Renewable Resources Depletion Effects

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of graphs, tables, and diagrams that illustrate the global impact of natural resource depletion. (Published 2014)
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Natural Resources

For Students 3rd - 7th
A slideshow and a short quiz on natural resources, the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources, and the impact humans have on the Earth's natural resources.