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A TED-Ed video lesson about the different sources of energy and how using these different resources can impact our daily lives.
Associated Grade Levels: 5-67-89-1011-12Public
Teachers will find a progression of four lesson plans in this curriculum. These lessons focus on advanced biofuel projects from across the U.S. that are striving to meet goals of economic, environmental, and social sustainability, while producing alternative fuels and co-products. These lessons are delivered with evidence based narrative material that will engage students in the stories surrounding these progressive biofuels projects. There are two curricular threads that progress through the lessons. The first thread is the science content to build students’ knowledge of advanced biofuels. The second thread has students progress from deconstructing narrative material to constructing their own narrative in the final lesson.
Educational resources provided by Advanced Hardwoods Biofuels Northwest
Associated Grade Levels: 7-89-1011-12Public
News and Information about Biofuel and Biomass Fuel Technology from AENews
A PBS website that offers an in-depth essential addition to America's energy debate. The videos are produced by Detroit Public Television and Scientific American.
Biofuel production chains describe the production process starting from the production of biomass to the technological transformation of biomass to biofuel
Associated Grade Levels: 9-1011-12
Detailing the establishment and emergence of a variety of biofuel technologies which use biomass to provide commercial sources of energy whilst offering significant potential benefits, in terms of savings in fossil fuel resource depletion and geenhouse gas emissions
Associated Grade Levels: 11-12
University of Wisconsin Madison Massive Open Online Course designed to highlight the impact of a changing climate while detailing how these effects are taking place and why.
Overview of the progress and goals for different teams within the NARA framework.
Associated Grade Levels: 11-12Public
Students will complete a scavenger hunt worksheet in order to learn about the basics of energy and its sources.
Associated Grade Levels: 1-23-45-67-8
Energy efficiency resources, including guides on heating and cooling, efficient lighting, window insulation, water conservation, solar energy, and more
PBS compilation of energy resources including relevant videos, lesson plans, and grouped by grade level as well as educational standards.
Associated Grade Levels: 1-23-45-67-89-1011-12Public
A comprehensive guide to energy literacy with lessons, assessments and student readings covering topics including the basics of energy through home energy usage and sustainable flight using biofuel from the Pacific Northwest, among others.
Associated Grade Levels: 5-67-8Public
Associated Grade Levels: 9-1011-12Public
A biofuel company is able to produce larger levels of fuel than previously thought also with new ways for the company to continue prosper.
Global Change is a research program that works to understand the impacts of climate change.
A NOVA video showing how the growing population is increasing the demand for energy and how we are going to fill the need along with the effects on the environment.
A TED-Ed video lesson about how many lightbulbs each person uses in the United Kingdom. A physicist walks us through the amount of energy used and needed all converted to the amount of light bulbs on all the time.
A students guide to Global Climate Change. This EPA site helps kids explore and understand what is going on with climate change, what the impacts are, how to think like a scientist and how to be a part of the solution.
Associated Grade Levels: 5-67-89-10Public
A magazine that compiles recent innovations, case studies, LED applications and more dealing specifically with how the lighting community is using the resources that LED technology offers.
Website about how to implement and change public policies for the betterment of society by way of sustainability collaboration.
News and Information about Biofuels from National Geographic
News and Information about Biofuels from the New York Times
National Renewable Energy Laboratory surveyed 74 companies that reported they have commercial-scale biofuel production. This overview provides a link to the published survey results detailing the different types of biofuel and the capacity available.
This lesson asks students to build model that let them see the photosynthetic reaction in a tangible symbolic way. It teaches students about the conversion of energy to matter and back to energy again via respiration. Students create glucose, starch and cellulose molecules.
Associated Grade Levels: 5-67-89-1011-12
A compilation of short quizzes with answers and resources for more material. Quizzes include but not limited to Soil moisture, The ocean, Frozen poles, Precipitation and the water cycle, and How's your energy level?
A Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network website which covers the importance of climate literacy and understanding what role the climate plays in our everyday life.
A Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network website which details energy literacy and how to best teach its concepts, this includes an energy quiz.
A study of three ice cores from Greenland documents the warming of the large ice sheet at the end of the last ice age – resolving a long-standing paradox over when that warming occurred.
PowerPoint presentation about reducing cost and increasing feasibility for solar energy.
Article describing the process that Gevo make alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fuel along with some of the other testing that has been done with this alternative fuel source.
