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Electrical

For Students 4th - 8th
In this electrical worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary words in a word search that are related to electricity. There are 27 words in the puzzle.
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Things That Use Electricity

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify ways to save energy. In this electricity instructional activity, students identify things in their house that use electricity and discuss ways to reduce the use of energy.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Working with Watermills

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
In collaborative groups, emerging engineers or environmental scientists plan and construct a water wheel or watermill that rotates for a total of three minutes. Everything you need to carry out this lesson is included: objectives,...
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Energy: The Big Picture

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils research about energy related topics. In this earth science lesson, students discuss ways to save energy. They create a presentation about their research and share it with the class.
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Triboelectric Series

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students conduct a series of experiments on static electricity. In this physics lesson, students arrange explain how objects become electrically charges. They predict which objects will become charged when rubbed together based on the...
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Ecological Impact of River Dams

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students investigate their environment by completing an in-class experiment.  In this ecological lesson, students define the roles of dams and how electricity is created by them.  Students utilize plastic jugs, sand and tap...
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Primary Energy Sources Pros and Cons

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students explore the different types of renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. In this earth science instructional activity, students discuss the pros and cons of each type. They conduct a variety of experiments on renewable energy.
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General Chemistry

For Teachers 10th - 11th
In this chemistry worksheet, students identify the name and abbreviation of the SI unit for mass, length, time, electric current, and temperature. Then they give the abbreviation for each of the units listed and describe what they are...
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The Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science worksheet, students use a periodic table to complete the first four rows of a chart. Students use the Internet or research books to complete the last column.
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Rain and Rainbows

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the weather system by analyzing water properties. For this precipitation lesson, students review weather related vocabulary terms and discuss how rainbows are created by light hitting droplets at the right time. Students...
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What Resources Do People Use?

For Students 6th - 8th
For this resources worksheet, students will fill in the missing word in 4 statements referring to how people use natural resources. Then students will fill in the missing word in 4 statements about how natural resources are used to make...
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Teach Engineering

Ampere's Law

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Help your class find the the magnetic field of a toroid, a solenoid bent into a circle with an activity that allows the class to see how a loop of wire carrying an electrical charge behaves much like a magnet. The resource provides...
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GENERATE YOUR OWN HYDROPOWER

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students build a water wheel, a simple galvanometer, and a simple hydropower generator, plus detect the electricity generated.
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The BristleBot

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here you will find detailed instructions for constructing BristleBots, simple robots run by miniscule vibration motors. There is no lesson plan, just a procedure for producing these fun little contraptions. They could be used as an...
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Light Saver

For Teachers K - 6th
Turn off the lights! That's right it's time to start thinking about conservation and saving electricity. Here is a very quick and very simple Earth Day craft that kids can do in a wink. They'll make light-bulb-shaped door hangers that...
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Wind Wise Education

Can Wind Power Your Classroom?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Can you power this? Individuals do an energy audit for the classroom to determine the amount of electricity needed to power it. Using either live data or sample data from wind turbines they decide whether it would power the classroom....
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Mapping Greenhouse Gas Emissions Where You Live

For Teachers 5th - 10th
After investigating the US Environmental Protection Agency's climate change website, your environmental studies students discuss greenhouse gas emissions. They use an online interactive tool to look at data from power production...
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Carnegie Mellon University

Renewables Workshop

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Youngsters examine resource maps to find out which states are using solar and wind power and discuss as a class various other renewable energy sources. They use a provided data table to record pros and cons to each technology, build and...
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Wind Wise Education

What is the Cost of Inefficiency?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
What does it cost to keep the lights on? Through a hands-on activity, class members use a watt meter and determine the amount of energy different types of light bulbs use. The class then determines the financial and environmental...
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The Atom Board - Making Atoms

For Students 5th - 12th
In this atom worksheet, chemists learn how to determine the number of protons, neutrons and electrons in an atom using the atomic mass and atomic number. They complete a chart of the subatomic particles and use marbles to represent...
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Bonneville

Variables Affecting Wind Turbine Power

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Design the best from the best. Groups work together to come up with the best configuration of different variables that affect a wind turbine. The teams choose from several variables such as the number of blades, the angle of the blades,...
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Foundation for Water & Energy Education

How Can Work Be Done with Water Power? Activity C

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Third in a set of lessons regarding reservoirs, dams, and hydropower, this involves a two-day hydropower plant simulation. Collaborative groups build, maintain, and finance the plant. The transparency of the reservoir setup can be...
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Energy for Keeps

Going for a Spin: Making a Model Steam Turbine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Discover the effectiveness of wind, water, and steam as energy sources. The hands-on activity has young scientists create a turbine from common materials. After constructing the turbines, they use wind, water, and steam to turn them and...
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University of Colorado

The Jovian Basketball Hoop

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Can you listen to Jupiter on a simple radio? Turns out the answer is yes! The resource instructs scholars to build a simple radio to pick up the radio waves created when the charged particles from the sun hit Jupiter's magnetic...

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