Energy Education is an interactive curriculum supplement on CD for secondary-school science students, funded by the U. S. Department of Energy and the Texas State Energy Conservation Office (SECO). The educational program built around this material strives to lay the foundation for environmental stewardship in teachers and students though critical thinking and problem-solving.
The supplement begins by introducing scientific principles of energy and fuels, and then proceeds to investigate specific topics: the nature and extent of renewable and nonrenewable energy resources, the economics and environmental effects of energy use, and energy technology.
Energy Education has 34 activities/investigations, including two web-based lessons and one interactive Flash-based investigation. The approach balances technology and hands-on activities. Multiple electronic resources are used to help teachers meet the Texas Education Agency's Long-Range Plan for Technology and advanced students' learning needs, clarify and extend concepts, establish partnerships with local businesses and community organizations, and help integrate TEKS into computer-based classroom activities.
11/02/2009
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We have another program in Texas, called ISEEBI. That stands for Integrated School Energy Education and Building Improvement (http://iseebi.tamu.edu).
ReplyDeleteThis program was piloted last June as "Camp Energy" which took 25 middle school students on field trips, through classroom material labs, and energy themed competitions. The field trips included their school building's machine room, a biofuels plant, a gas fired power plant and a host of other locations at Texas A&M. The classroom labs included measuring energy transfer between a heat lamp and an IR thermometer as experienced by real world building materials such as Hardyplank, plywood, shingles, insulation and rock. They even got to play with different types of windows and three types of light bulbs (LED, CFL, and Edison).
We love for folks to pick up our posted curriculum links and to get ideas from our pictures. We intend to post more of the teacher's notes on the site before Spring.
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Don