Links
Each of these
links offers you valuable classroom resources while you study energy
with your students. Some of these Web sites are purely educational,
providing the opportunity to learn more about the types, uses, and
history of energy, while other links provide lesson plans.
The
Alliance to Save energy
This site includes many lesson plans for the middle school classroom
including lessons on acid rain, home energy audits, formation of
fossil fuels, and energy transformations.
www.ase.org/greenschools/index.htm
Center
for Energy and Environmental Education
This site provides lesson plans, interesting facts and ways the
Center may be able to help you.
http://www.uni.edu/ceee/
Department
of Energy
All you wanted to know about carbon sequestration. A springboard
to discuss fossil fuels, the environment, and human resourcefulness.
http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/sequestration/
Energy
Information Administration
Links to many online resources appropriate for the classroom. Links
include fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and renewables.
www.eia.doe.gov/kids/onlineresources.html
Environmental
Protection Agency
Classroom resources on the air, conservation, ecosystems, human
health, waste and recycling, and water.
www.epa.gov/teachers
Frontline
Blackout is a program and Web site on the California energy crisis.
You could use this as an opportunity to discuss how politics, people,
and business all have a stake in energy.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blackout
Lawrence
Berkley National Laboratory's Nuclear Science Division
Provides online resources to learn about fission and fusion, radioactivity,
and antimatter.
www.lbl.gov/abc
National
Renewable Energy Laboratory
This site provides a list of resources you can use to learn about
renewable energy.
www.nrel.gov/clean_energy/student_teacher.html
Iowa
School Wind Power Project
A project to help schools streamline the process for building wind
turbines for their districts.
http://www.schoolwindpower.com
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