Teaching Materials – Energy Management & Efficiency
Energy Management & Efficiency
Students survey an electrical appliance at home in What’s The Cheapest Watt? Pooling class data, they then consider energy management decisions. In the end, they determine the cheapest Watt—the one that costs the least, preserves the most natural resources, and saves the most environmental pollution — is the Watt they never use.
- Student Lesson & Response Guide (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- Instructor’s Guide & Answer Key 🔒
- ELS Standards (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- NGSS Standards (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
In this lesson, students learn that It Pays to Save in Your Home. Students consider many common, potential energy saving situations in a home, research questions surrounding them, and report on their findings. Students learn which energy saving measures should always be applied first. They also learn that saving energy always comes before applying renewable energy technologies.
- Student Lesson (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- Student Lesson Summary Guide (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- Student Summary Notes Guide (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- Student Poster Production Guidelines & Requirements (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- Instructor’s Guide 🔒
- ELS Standards (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- NGSS Standards (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
In Building A Passive Solar Home, students design and build a home to take advantage of its natural surroundings and manage its environmental disadvantages. They learn about the concept of a home energy load profile. Students learn how seasonal changes, architecture, and landscaping can be used in the design of a home with a low energy load profile.
- Student Lesson (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- Student Response Guide (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- Student Paper Design Templates (Adobe PDF)
- Instructor’s Guide 🔒
- ELS Standards (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- NGSS Standards (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
Take your students on a field trip through places in your school they never see. Show students how energy systems are used to deliver and efficiently manage comfort in a building like yours in Commercial Building Energy Systems.
- Student Lesson (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- Instructor’s Guide 🔒
- Student Assessment (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- YouTube Video
- Video Script (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- Drawing (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- ELS Standards (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
- NGSS Standards (Adobe PDF) (Microsoft Word)
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