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Uso Eficiente De Energia Electrica

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the efficient use of electric energy in Spanish. See the products and services responsible for saving energy.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Much Energy Do You Save by Doubling Insulation?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the governing equation for steady state heat transfer across a surface to explore the effect of changing the insulation value on the amount of energy used.
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US Department of Energy

U.s. Department of Energy: Energy Savers: Small Wind Electric Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive animation teaching how a wind turbine works to produce electricity.
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Technology Student: Technology and the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on alternate energy sources and how they can help us save our environment.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Greenhouse Light and Temperature

For Students 6th - 8th
An interactive tool where students can create a model of a greenhouse and use a light sensor to measure the amount of light it receives from a lamp at various times of the day. Temperature is also measured. Data is plotted on graphs,...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Heat and Light From Electricity

For Students 6th - 8th
Understand the energy transformations that happens when you light a bulb with a battery. Activity requires students to build a simple circuit and take temperature and time measurements. Lab includes procedure with questions that can be...
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The Green Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
The Green Guide offers environmental advice with regard to home and garden, travel and transportation, and food. For example, find ways that you can make over your living room, or add home insulation, or buy a television the green way.
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El Education: Alternative Energy Report

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This report was created by 7th and 8th grade students in Vergennes, Vermont, as part of a Learning expedition called "Reducing the Carbon Footprint." The building manager met with a team of approximately 40 students as they investigated...
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EL Education

El Education: Do the Green Thing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
7th and 8th grade students at Capital City Public Charter School created this guide to energy efficiency as the capstone project to a seven-month expedition on Green Building. During this expedition students worked under the guidance of...
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Usno: Daylight Time

For Students 9th - 10th
From the U.S. Naval Observatory, a brief history of daylight savings time including information of the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which changed the date from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March starting...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Choosing Between Home Appliances: Benefits to the Planet and Your Wallet

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students compare various options for purchasing new home appliances by comparing the energy usage of more efficient models to less energy efficient models. They calculate the payback period in cases for which the purchase price for the...
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Warmair.com: Programmable Thermostats

For Students 9th - 10th
The virtues of programmable thermostats are discussed. Includes a section titled "Thermostat Set-back Calculation;" the visitor can enter the normal and an adjusted thermostat setting and an outdoor temperature and view the percent...
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Warmair.com: Attic Insulation Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
An online JavaScript application which allows visitors to investigate the relative amount of heat being lost from their homes due to insufficient insulation. The current R-value and a hypothetical R-value can be entered and the energy...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Solar Oven

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use the sun's energy to cook an egg? Design, build and test a solar oven. Activity gives a procedure to build oven as well as questions to answer. Questions can be saved and graded by instructor.
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The Atom's Family: Cooling the Mummy's Tomb

For Students 3rd - 8th
Help the Pharaoh design a better tomb by investigating insulation materials.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Measuring Light Pollution

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students are introduced to the concept of light pollution by investigating the nature, sources and levels of light in their classroom environment. They learn about the adverse effects of artificial light and the resulting consequences on...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Traffic Lights

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about traffic lights and their importance in maintaining public safety and order. Using a Parallax Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller, students work in teams on the engineering challenge to build a traffic light with a specific...
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Youngzine: Week of 11 05 12: An Hour More of Zzzz's..yay!

For Students 3rd - 8th
On Sunday, November 4 at 2 a.m, clocks in U.S were set back by an hour as Daylight Savings came to an end. What is DST? Who first proposed the idea? Is it practiced around the world? Let's take a look in this video. [0:37]
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Wind Generator

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a voltage sensor, students will measure how much "electricity" is produced by the wind turbine that they design and build. Students will experiment with blade designs to see which one collects energy from the wind the most...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Melting Ice

For Students 6th - 8th
Using temperature probes, students will monitor the temperature of melting ice cubes in different situations. This lab activity, allows students to view the procedure and answer questions online that can be saved and evaluated by the...
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Nova Teacher: Saved by the Sun: Classroom Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During the lesson, students will also design, build and test a solar cooker that pasteurizes water.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Insulation Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
Several well-written pages using easy-to-understand language. Explains about every detail concerning insulation and its installation or replacement. Discusses R values, heat loss, insulation types, etc.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Radiant Barrier Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
Several well-written pages using easy-to-understand language. Explains the concept of reflective insulation and radiant behaviors. Discusses benefits of radiant barrier installation.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs Cost Benefit Analysis

For Teachers 5th - 9th
This analysis activity allows students to calculate electrical usage in home lighting, and create a cost-benefit analysis for cost and energy savings by replacement of incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent or LED light bulbs.

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