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Electricity: Sources, Usage, Challenges, and the Future

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This Electricity: Sources, Usage, Challenges, and the Future lesson plan also includes:

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Unit Plan Sheet
The Path of Electricity
Solar Power and North Carolina's Electric Cooperatives
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What does the future of energy look like? Junior engineers collaborate to discover a solution to the global energy crisis during a very hands-on lesson. The unit focuses on learning through collaboration to develop a deep understanding of current energy issues and meeting design constraints in engineering.

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Concepts

electrical energy, human impact on the environment, energy, electricity, power plants, engineering design, mechanical engineering, engineers, alternative energy sources, batteries, light bulbs, energy sources, renewable energy sources, energy crisis, energy use, non-renewable energy

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

Print and distribute the vocabulary list at the beginning of the unit, so pupils use the correct terms as they work with their groups
Schedule a field trip to a local power plant, if one is nearby

Classroom Considerations

Make sure you are familiar with the energy resources and energy providers in your area before beginning the lesson plan

Pros

The lesson is adaptable to traditional, block, or modified A-B schedules
Great activities and superb planning make the resource a go-to for your next NGSS engineering endeavor

Cons

There are a few spelling errors in the Unit Plan teacher's reference

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