TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Closer Look at Oil and Energy Consumption
Students analyze international oil consumption and production data. They make several graphs to organize the data and draw conclusions about the overall use of oil in the world.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Products From Petroleum
Students explore and investigate with some common products made from petroleum.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Energy Efficiency
Students measure energy outputs and inputs to determine the efficiency of conversions and simple systems. One associated activitiy includes Lego motors and accomplishing work. The other investigates energy for heating water. Students...
Other
Go Noodle
This free site (requires registration) offers videos that encourage "mind breaks" during the school day. Short videos get kids up and moving for a couple of minutes to help them use excess energy productively and then settle down to...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Measure Photosynthesis With Floating Leaves
In this activity, you will be able to observe the oxygen production in leaves by doing a floating leaf disk experiment. You can also find out how quickly plants produce oxygen, and what variables affect photosynthesis.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Activation Energy: Lesson 2
This lesson will explain how activation energy is needed to start a chemical reaction. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "Activation Energy."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Activation Energy: Lesson 3
This lesson will explain how activation energy is needed to start a chemical reaction. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Activation Energy."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Activation Energy: Lesson 4
This lesson will explain how activation energy is needed to start a chemical reaction. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Activation Energy."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Activation Energy: Lesson 1
This lesson will explain how activation energy is needed to start a chemical reaction. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Activation Energy."
McREL International
Mc Rel: Whelmer #11 Learning Activity: Straw Oboes
An easy to do activity that investigates sound waves, wave length, frequency and pitch. The activity is presented in a lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Patterns in Resource Consumption
This collection of three learning modules looks at issues related to resource consumption. It examines theories about how population size affects consumption, the changing patterns of energy consumption, and ways to minimize consumption....
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Crafting a Sustainability Message
This activity asks students to convey a sustainability message by developing text for a descriptive information board or kiosk to be placed at Growing Places Farm and Energy Park.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Wind Power!
Students learn how engineers transform wind energy into electrical energy by building their own miniature wind turbines and measuring the electrical current it produces. They explore how design and position affect the electrical energy...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Digest Your Food!
In a multi-week experiment, student teams gather biogas data from the mini-anaerobic digesters that they build to break down different types of food waste with microbes. They compare methane gas production from decomposing hot dogs,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Corn for Fuel?!
In this activity, students examine how to grow plants the most efficiently. They imagine that they are designing a biofuels production facility and need to know how to efficiently grow plants to use in this facility. As a means of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sci Girls | Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineers improve processes by eliminating any waste of time, money, energy, or other resources. They need to understand how every part can affect the entire process and figure out how to balance each part to design the most...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Rolling Blackouts & Environmental Impact
The goal is for the students to understand the environmental design considerations required when generating electricity. The electric power that we use every day at home and work is generated by a variety of power plants. Power plants...
Other
Water on the Web
Water on the Web (WOW) is an advanced site allowing students to actively participate in data analysis from real research sites. Lesson plans on a range of topics are provided. There is also a tutorial for using Excel to graph WOW data.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Healthy Eating Activity 4: Energy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the 'Food - a fact of life' website. Pupils will be able to understand why their bodies need energy, how much energy is in certain food types and who needs more...
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Sidewalk Chalk
Make your own sidewalk chalk, and learn about chemical reactions. During the procedure, feel the heat as energy is released in an exothermic reaction.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Win That Bid! Selling Your Power Solution
A large part of engineering involves presenting products, concepts, and proposals to others in order to gain approval, funding, contracts, etc. The purpose of this activity is to fine-tune students' presentation skills while allowing...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuels 101
Multi-lesson activity in which students conduct a life cycle assessment of energy and carbon dioxide used and produced in ethanol production.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Peak Oil Game
This activity aims to explore the production process and its advancing technologies to better extract petroleum for products and energy use. What happens to production as the amount of oil in the ground decreases?