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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy in Our Lives Carousel

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity is a way for students to discover that they already know a lot about energy through their own life experiences. As active consumers of various forms of energy, they are aware of energy purchases for electricity, home...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Corn for Fuel?!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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Curated OER

Fossil Fuels

For Students Pre-K - 1st
fossil fuels
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Alternative Energy Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Society is beginning to recognize the limited supply of fossil fuels. In this project, young scholars will investigate alternative energy sources. Conservation of resources is discussed and while conservation is an important step, at...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Carbon Dioxide: The Heat Is On

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will observe the effect of the gases resulting from a burned fossil fuel on the heat absorption of air and determine the ability of phytoplankton to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. This activity is...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Harvesting Oil From the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson, learners investigate sources of fossil fuels, particularly oil. Students will learn how engineers and scientists look for oil by taking core samples from a model of the Earth. Also, learners will explore and analyze oil...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Heating and Cooling Curves

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the interactive cooling curve graph as a tool to answer two challenge questions about temperature change in the fossil fuel, Naphthalene.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can 100% Renewable Energy Power the World?

For Students 9th - 10th
Why don't we exchange our fossil fuel dependence for existence based only on renewables? Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei describe the challenges.
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Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Global Warming & Rising Oceans

For Students 9th - 10th
Overuse of fossil fuels has exploited the threat of global warming on Earth. This article features the details of the threat and provides additional resources.
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Handout
National Earth Science Teachers Association

Windows to the Universe: Air Pollution

For Students 9th - 10th
What do smog, acid rain, carbon monoxide, fossil fuel exhausts, and tropospheric ozone have in common? They are all examples of air pollution. This article describes the causes and effects of air pollution.
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Read Works

Read Works: Fuels of the Future

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about renewable energy sources that may replace fossil fuel in the future. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Air Pollution Solutions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will investigate possible solutions to air pollution in relation to per capita consumption of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels being introduced as the cause, air pollution as the effect.
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Handout
Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Facts

For Students 3rd - 5th
A collection of facts about energy use broken down into various topic areas, e.g., health impact of fossil fuels, transportation, energy consumption, alternative energies, etc.
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Article
Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Concerns About Earth's Fever

For Students 9th - 10th
Burning fossil fuels is causing the planet to heat up, causing weather patterns to change, sea levels to rise and diseases to spread. Scientists are concerned with the rising temps of Earth.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Climate Change: Earth's Giant Game of Tetris

For Students 9th - 10th
There's a game of Tetris happening on a global scale: The playing space is planet Earth, and all those pesky, stacking blocks represent carbon dioxide- a greenhouse gas that is piling up ever more rapidly as we burn the fossil fuels that...
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Website
Other

Life of a Rock Star

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the origin of the Canadian Geologic Survey. Find out the qualifications necessary to be a geologist and how they locate fossil fuels.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity, students use a chemical indicator (bromothymol blue) to detect the presence of carbon dioxide in animal and plant respiration and in the burning of fossil fuels and its absence in the products of plant...
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Handout
Other

Florida Dept. Of Education: Conservation of Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module, students learn to differentiate between renewable and nonrenewable resources, and identify resources that fit into each category. It explains the environmental effects of using nonrenewable resources, such as...
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Other

American Coal Foundation: Lesson Plan: Coal Formation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this four-part lesson, students will conduct a simulation of the coal formation process and will show the ability to do scientific inquiry. For the final project, they will use their findings they have recorded on their "Coal Fossil...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Nonrenewable Resources

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A nonrenewable resource is a natural resource that is consumed or used up faster than it can be made by nature. Two main types of nonrenewable resources are fossil...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Causes of Air Pollution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the air pollutants released from fossil fuels, biomass burning, and volatile organic compounds.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Energy and the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is devoted to the environmental record of the George W. Bush Administration. It examines everything from nuclear energy and waste to better fuel efficiency in SUVs.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Choices Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use this board game to introduce the concepts of energy use in our lives and the very real impact that personal choices can have on our energy consumption, energy bills and fuel supply. The game begins as students select cards that...
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Website
Other

Abc Da Energia

For Students 2nd - 5th
ABC Da Energia describes the many ways that energy can be obtained and conserved. It explains different sources of energy, how each works, and how energy can be saved in our daily lives. Interactive energy-saving activities and games...

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