In this activity, students act as power engineers by specifying the power plants to build for a community. They are given a budget, an expected power demand from the community, and different power plant options with corresponding environmental effects. They can work through this scenario as a class or on their own.

Concepts

engineering, non-renewable energy, stem, energy sources

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Additional Tags

power demand, renewable energy, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, power plant

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)