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Education Links
Last Updated on:
07/02/2009 04:33 AM |
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Energy Kids Page Solar Energy: An online, interactive
educational Web site that encourages students in grades 3-7 to become Energy
Hog Busters, teaching them about energy efficiency. (Developed by the
Advertising Council and Energy Outreach Colorado) |
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Solar Energy: Become a Sun Chef!: School gardening projects fit
easily into the curriculum and enhance studies in a wide range of subjects,
but they also have a special value all their own. Some schools have always had
gardens, but gardens for teaching have a more recent history. A small
visitor to our garden -- he was fascinated with the pots of green pepper
plants (Midori Hiraga) Over the last 30 years many thousands of schools have
incorporated gardening into the curriculum. With the growing experience of
school gardening has come a great deal of evidence of the multiple benefits to
be gained. |
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Wind with Miller: Activities: Famous gothic horror characters
present educational activities relating to different forms of energy, as well
as energy conservation, for grades K-12. (Developed by the Miami Museum of
Science) |
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For Teachers |
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Renewable Energy Sources: geology and history of oil. It is aimed at
13-15 year olds, but should be useful to children and adults of all ages.
Various topics provide information on the history of oil, the geology basis for
oil, its uses, tools used to find oil, the steps that need to occur for there to
be an economic accumulation of oil underground, and so forth. |
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Teachers: FREE Hands-on, Multidisciplinary Lesson Plans: Study the
rotation rate of the Sun and the planets. This lesson includes several hands-on
activities to familiarize yourself with the concept of rotation. You will then
use movies made with actual solar images to study the rotation rate of the Sun. |
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Tidal: a treasure-trove of information and activities to support
energy studies in UK schools. Energy Chest has been developed for pupils aged
8-14 years |
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Weather Works: Wind: Site contains three simple lesson plans to
introduce the concept of wind to the class and its many roles. |
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University Programs |
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Centre for Research on Transportation (CRT) : at the
University of Minnesota includes information about seminar series and other
resources. It features a biocatalysts database for bioconversion. |
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The University of Newcastle Wind Turbine Group : A Berkley
Laboratory project, The Standby Power web site educates the benefits of
reducing standby power that is power used while a product is providing no
function. Their web site provides statistics and publications relating to the
field. |
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University of Idaho: Energy Research Group Carry out research on
low-energy and passive solar building design and host the site for the
European Solar Industry Federation ESIF. Many excellent well-illustrated
reports on EU funded research projects are available in pdf format but you'll
need a fast link to deal with the monster file sizes! |
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