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Blackout!

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Students read news reports and first-person accounts of a blackout in a large city and keep weblogs or journals. They take on different roles of people who live in the city or commute there to work and then use their journal accounts to create a play or screenplay that depicts what the August 2003 blackout was like for the people in the U.S. and Canada who experienced it.

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energy, power, graphs

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blackout, energy, grid, power, science
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Grade
5th - 7th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 hrs
Instructional Strategies
Project-Based Learning
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Year
2005
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