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In What’s In An Energy Bill? (Part 1), students will analyze two imaginary, but typical, energy bills. One is a bill from the winter season and one is from the summer season. Students will become acquainted with and use features present on energy bills. Students will also consider some of their weekly and seasonally energy use patterns.
What’s In An Energy Bill? (Part 2) builds upon the lesson in Part 1. Students visit the EPA’s Power Profiler website to review the resources and air emissions consequences of their energy bill. Students also learn the resources and emissions consequences of their energy savings efforts.
Students develop an acceptable definition of “energy” in the lab activity, What Is Energy?.
Where Does Energy Come From? may teach the most important lesson for every citizen on the planet. It answers the title question and explains what happens every time energy is converted from one form to another.
Where else is there to start the study of solar energy? Students learn the basics about our star, the Sun, in this simple and self paced lesson titled Starring The Sun.
Students perform directed research on each part of The Electromagnetic Spectrum. They find that each part of the electromagnetic spectrum is a useful and important part of our lives.
Energy Conversions & Beyond introduces students to the BTU and Joule, and to useful energy conversions that can be done with them. Later, students use a typical energy bill to calculate the costs, resources, and air emissions for which they are responsible. In the end, students understand the real costs of using energy — and the real benefits of saving it.
Exploring A Job In The Energy Industry encourages students to explore a potential, future energy job. Using Career Maps, students research compensation, qualifications, job demands, and advancement opportunities for the job they selected.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #2201631. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.
