| NASAExplores -
Solar Energy articles and lessons for K-4, 5-8 and 9-12
Kids' Zone Nuclear World -
Nuclear power from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., geared toward
younger kids
Watts On Schools
Watts On Schools is American Electric Power's way of
bringing solar power to schools in communities throughout
Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
The Solar Energy Coloring Book
This coloring book offered
for free through the Texas Solar Energy Society is a
fun way to introduce kids to renewable energy concepts.
Kids Fact Sheet - Renewable Energy for the Home
Illustrates the function of several renewable energy
sources that can be employed in the home.
Appropriate for upper grade school
Kids Fact Sheet - Electricity from the Sun
A resource for classrooms and teachers from the Infinite
Power of Texas. A 4-page resource on wind,
earth, and solar energy.
Kids Fact Sheet - The Advantages of Renewable Energy
Another fact sheet from Infinite Power of Texas.
Instead of explaining what they are, shows the
advantages of various sources of renewable energy.
Cook with the Sun
Despite what you learned as a kid,
it's probably not a very good idea to cook an egg on the
sidewalk. At least not if you plan on eating it. But if
you want advice on cooking great tasting meals using only
energy from the sun, we've got it.
Alternative Fuels teaching materials grades K-5
Texas
Department of Transportation
The Texas Department of Transportation's "Drive Clean
Across Texas" has a FREE comprehensive
educational program addressing air pollution. The curriculum is divided into activities for grades
K-12 and is matched to the Texas Essential
Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) requirements.
Transportation Energy: A Student's Guide to Alternative Fuel
Vehicles
This guide is produced by the California Energy Commission
and provides links to information about alternative fuels
and alternative fuel vehicles.
National
Energy Foundation
The National Energy Foundation FUELING THE FUTURE Web site
is designed to provide information to teachers and students
about alternative fuel vehicles. It also explains alternative
transportation fuel choices and shares fun and educational
activities. It includes posters, activities, curricula, and
links to many sites.
Fuel Cells
2000
Fuel Cells 2000 offers teachers and students K-12
information and resources such as fuel cell information
brochures and free information packets about fuel cells.
GMability
Education K-4
The GMability Education web site has supplemental articles
and Web-based activities that help students understand relevant
topics. Games and interactive features engage students, and
lesson plans based on national education standards help teachers
integrate activities into the classroom.
The
Advanced Transportation Technology Center
The Advanced Transportation Technology Center at Miramar College
at San Diego Miramar College has college programs in advanced
fuel technologies that have been adapted to younger students.
It created a booklet titled Introduction to Alternative Fuels
and Alternative Fueled Vehicles
National
Corn Growers Association
The National Corn Growers Association provides teachers of
all grade levels with a Web-based
educational kit, Corn in the Classroom, that discusses
how corn is used as an energy source to replace fossil fuels.
Alliance
To Save Energy
This site features comprehensive resources for energy educators
(K-12). Sample curricula and lesson plans are posted on the Web site.
Northeast
Sustainable Energy Association
The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association offers K-12 educational
programs that help students and teachers explore energy solutions.
Topics include renewable energy, clean transportation, and
environmentally wise everyday choices. Free and nominal fee
publications are available.
The
Charles Edison Fund
This organization provides experimental booklets to science
teachers. They contain 82 experiments, including How to Make
a Fuel Cell (grades 4-8).
Environmental
Protection Agency: EcoKids
This site includes information on various environmental issues,
games, curricula, and more. Loaded with flash
animation for young kids.
National Energy
Education Development (NEED)
NEED works with state and local partners to provide energy
education workshops to teachers and students throughout the
school year. A teacher's PDF guide for "Change a
Light, Change the World is included" at this site.
Energy
Information Administration
The Energy Information Administration's kids' Web site features
Energy Ant, who teaches about all forms of renewable and nonrenewable
energy. EIA also publishes Energy
Education Resources, an annual directory of low-cost or
no-cost energy information resources.
Alternative Fuels Activities K-5
Honolulu
Clean Cities Fun-Fueled Activity Book
The Fun-Fueled Activity Book provides accurate, reliable information
on alternative fuels in a fun and interesting way. You'll
find puzzles, mazes, crosswords, and other activities. Information
on fuels, vehicles, pollution, and technologies is also included.
Daniel and His Electric Car
This children's book from the U.S. Department of Energy tells
the story of Daniel and his father, who are shopping for a
new car.
Fort Worth Clean Cities Coalition Kids' Page
This site from the North Central Texas Council of
Governments contains word scrambles, coloring books, connect
the dots, and other educational activities.
Energy Eagle Coloring Book
This coloring book from the U.S. Department of Energy
Alternative Fuels Data Center teaches elementary students about transportation-related
air pollution.
Take
a Trip to Clean Air - Alternative Fuels Coloring Book
In 2002 the Florida Solar Energy Center published an
alternative fuels coloring book, "Take a Trip to Clean Air"
Pages from the book are posted here, as well as activities
for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, & 10-12
Alternative Fuels Teaching materials 6-8
Drive Clean Across Texas
The Texas Department of Transportation's "Drive Clean
Across Texas" campaign is the nation’s first statewide
air quality awareness and public education campaign. The curriculum is divided into activities for grades
kindergarten through 12 and matched to the Texas Essential
Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) requirements.
Transportation
Energy: A Student's Guide to Alternative Fuel Vehicles
This guide is produced by the California Energy Commission,
providing links to information about alternative fuels
and alternative fuel vehicles.
National
Corn Growers Association
The National Corn Growers Association provides teachers of
all grade levels with a Web-based educational kit, Corn in
the Classroom, that discusses how corn is used as an energy
source to replace fossil fuels.
Earthtroop is the home base of General Motors' effort to educate children
regarding the environment through cartoons, music, videos,
games and activities. The flash-animated site has an
emphasis on the use of E-85 and ethanol -- includes a flash
game about the topic.
GMability Education Grades 5-8
The GMability Education web site has supplemental articles
and Web-based activities that help students understand relevant
topics. Games and interactive features engage students, and
lesson plans based on national education standards help teachers
integrate activities into the classroom. Engaging
flash-based features on internal combustion and fuel cells.
Fuel
Cells 2000
Fuel Cells 2000 offers teachers and students information and resources.
Many links to fuel-cell related sites, in addition to
science project ideas.
Alliance To Save Energy
This site features comprehensive resources for energy educators
(K-12). Sample elementary, middle and high school lesson
plans are posted on the Web site.
National
Energy Foundation
The National Energy Foundation FUELING THE FUTURE Web site
is designed to provide information to teachers and students
about alternative fuel vehicles. It also explains alternative
transportation fuel choices and shares fun and educational
activities. It includes posters, activities, curricula, and
links to many sites.
Planet Connecticut
Environmental Education for Connecticut middle school
students teaching about ecosystems and how their choices
impact the environment. Curriculum was written by the
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association."
The Charles Edison Fund
This organization provides experimental
booklets to science teachers. They contain 82 experiments,
including How to Make a Fuel Cell (grades 4-8).
Edugreen
"Making Environmental Learning Fun for the Young"
Suitable for younger students, features puzzles and lessons
on energy, air pollution, climate change and more.
Energy
Education Curriculum Project: Energy and Transportation
Energy Education Curriculum pilot project from the
University of Northern Iowa features modules for teaching
5th-6th and middle school students about energy and transportation.
Cross disciplinary, touching on science, match, lanaguge
arts and social studies.
Key
Centre for Polymer Colloids Ethanol Production from Plants
Educational Module
Providing a lesson relevant only to advanced chemistry
class,
The Key Centre for Polymer Colloids is established and supported
under the Australian Research Council's Research Centres Program.
Walks through the reactions inherent to the production of
ethanol in detail.
Energy
Information Administration
The Energy Information Administration's kids' Web site features
Energy Ant, who teaches about all forms of renewable and nonrenewable
energy. EIA also publishes Energy Education Resources, an
annual directory of low-cost or no-cost energy
information resources.
Alternative Fuels Activities for Grades 6-8
SunLine
Transit
SunLine Transit offers this workbook, Flex Your Muscle with
Clean Energy Exercises (PDF
2.08 MB), which contains puzzles, math exercises, games, and
activities
for middle school students.
Planet
Polluto
Several professional-looking games with a science fiction
slant where you can save the residents of the planet Polluto,
who have mismanaged their atmosphere.
Smog City
This site from the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality
Management District teaches about ozone and air pollution.
Loads a java-based simulation of what is is like to live in
the mismanaged "Smog City".
Florida
Solar Energy Center
The Florida Solar Energy Center offers Alternative
Fuel Matters and Solar Matters, award-winning science
curriculum units for kindergarten through middle school
students.
Honolulu Clean Cities
Honolulu Clean Cities offers the 32-page Alternative Fuels
activity book witgh activities and facts about pollution and
alternative fuels in downloadable Adobe PDF format.
Fermilab Resources for students
This section of the Fermilab website features student resources,
as well as classroom activities and units on particle physics.
Skews more toward a middle school audience.
Energy Kids Page: Hydrogen
Hydrogen facts from the Department of Energy's Energy Kids
Page
Information about solar energy, solar panels, and solar cooking
for young kids from Solar Energy International
Fuel Cells
2000
Fuel Cells 2000 offers teachers and students K-12
information and resources such as fuel cell information
brochures and free information packets about fuel cells.
Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Infrastructure Technologies Program
Classroom materials on energy and fuel cells for grades 5-12.
Wisconsin KEEP program
Publications of the Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program,
with full hands-on, interdisciplinary lessons organized around
the four themes: We Need Energy, Developing Energy Resources,
Effects of Energy Resource Development, and Managing Energy
Resource Use.
Kidwind
Project
Features hands-on science projects and lesson plans to help
kids learn about wind energy.
Need Project
NEED energy infobooks for each grade level cover the following
topics:
Biomass Coal Electricity Energy Safety
Geothermal History of Energy Hydropower Intro to Energy
Natural Gas Petroleum Propane Saving Energy
Solar Uranium Wind
There are also materials on solar energy, alternative fuels,
and the environmental effects of transportation
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association has lesson plans
and curricular units for elementary students on solar energy and
global warming
Infinite Power
Infinite Power of Texas has nearly two dozen complete lesson plans
available on renewable energy sources
for elementary and middle school grades
Albuquerque's
Environmental Story: Educating For a Sustainable Community
Jointly developed by the City of Albuquerque (New Mexico),
the Albuquerque Public Schools, and the Albuquerque Conservation
Association, this on-line, 464-page book is aimed at students
in fourth and higher grades. It includes activities and worksheets
to help foster a "sustainable mindset" in students.
Topics include air, water quality, solid and hazardous waste,
energy, historic preservation, the built environment, transportation,
neighborhoods, and downtown redevelopment.
Green
Teacher
Archived online articles and short teaching activities from Green Teacher
magazine
Energy Information Administration: Energy Activities for Kids
and Students
A few dozen activities in Acrobat format for grade levels K-3,
4-7, 6-9, 9-12. This is a selection of stories,
hands-on activities, and research articles for students of
all learning styles and levels.
EIA Energy Milestones
Milestones in the History of Energy & Its Uses by the
Department of Energy features timelines in the histories of
over a dozen different renewable and nonrenewable energy sources
Minerals Management
Service Ocean Energy
Materials by the Minerals Management Service that teach students
about many energy resources located in, over, and under the
ocean by using background information, presentations, and
hands-on activities.
Volcano Lesson Plans
Features lesson plans about volcanoes for K-12 students to
help teach them about this form of geothermal energy. (Developed
by the University of North Dakota)
Water Works: A question of balance
The National Hydropower Association’s Water Works curriculum
allows students to inquire into the nature of water and the
hydrologic cycle. They then explore the physics of how
moving water can be used to generate electricity, the
environmental impacts of harnessing this energy source, and
comparing the costs and benefits of hydropower to other
energy sources. For grades 3-5.
Watt
Watchers of Texas
In addition to sections on the nature of energy,
Watt Watchers of Texas has activities to help students think
about energy conservation in the context of their school setting.
Wind Energy Teacher's Guide
Teacher's Guide features class activities for teaching K-12 students about
wind energy. (Developed by the American Wind Energy Association)
Static
Electricity Activities
Features activities for teaching elementary students about
static electricity. (Developed by the Museum of Science, Boston)
Reach Out Michigan Air Quality and Transportation Lesson
A lesson plan for teaching second graders how using carpools
and other alternative means of transportation are necessary
to lessen air pollution.
Science NetLinks: Energy Busters: Home Energy Conservation
Students in grades 3-5 complete a home energy survey and
develop an energy conservation plan for their home.
Franklin Institute - The Wind: Our Fierce Friend
Activities for teaching elementary students about wind energy.
Science Netlinks: Just Turn it Off
Prepared lesson plan whereby students probe the problem of what happens to a
battery-operated flashlight when it is not turned off.
Tucson Electric Power's Sunsite Funsite
See the activities section for information on using this Web
site for teaching elementary students about solar energy.
(Developed by the Tucson Electric Power Company)
American Coal Foundation - Conserving Electric Energy
A lesson plan for teaching grades 3-8 to appreciate their
dependency on electrical energy and how to control their
consumption.
Energy Education
Curriculum Project
Energy Education Curriculum pilot project from the
University of Northern Iowa features modules for teaching
5th-6th and middle school students about energy and transportation.
Cross disciplinary, touching on science, match, lanaguge
arts and social studies.
How Does Energy Affect Motion for Grade 4
Allows 4th graders to observe the way energy can be transformed
into another form of energy. (Featured on the AccelerateU
Web site)
How does the Sun's Angle Affect Temperature
Asks 4th graders to describe a variety of forms of energy
and the changes that occur in objects when they interact with
those forms of energy. (Featured on the AccelerateU Web site)
Solar
Matters III
This unit for grades 6-8 was developed by the Florida Solar
Energy Center, a research institute of the University of
Central Florida. The purpose of this unit is to create an
awareness of the power of solar energy, the importance of it
in our lives, and its impact on the future of energy
development.
Time for Kids Extra: Teacher's Guide
In-class activities, including hands-on experiments, for grades
4-6 that illustrate the benefits of energy efficiency. Materials
include the Time for Kids Extra! Student Magazine (PDF 924
KB). (Developed by EnergySmart Schools)
Alternative Fuel Matters
A compilation of individual activities for grades 6-8 that
create an awareness of the potential of alternative energy
sources. (Developed by the Florida Solar Energy Center)
Kool
Kids
Four lessons and tests for teaching 5th-9th graders about urban
heat islands. (Developed by the National Energy Foundation)
Nature of
Water Power
Curriculum units on the nature of water power appropriate for grades 6-8.
Note
the online hydro tours. (Developed by the Foundation for Water
& Energy Education)
Science Netlinks: Renewable Energy Sources
A lesson plan that has students in grades 6-8 investigate a
variety of renewable energy resources, as well as the benefits
and drawbacks of each.
Wind with Miller
Activities for learning about wind energy in general, geared
toward students aged 12-14. (Danish Wind Industry
Association)
The Atoms Family: Miami Museum of Science
In the "Mummy's
Tomb" and "Dracula's Library," you can learn
about energy conservation, physics principles, and electricity.
Cleaner and Greener for Schools
Curriculum materials and activities to calculate
how much emissions are caused by using energy at home and
school.
Department of Energy for Students and Kids
Take the Family Home Energy Quiz to test your energy saving
know-how
Edugreen:
Renewable Energy
Information about renewables, video clips, model
of a sustainable habitat, maps, and activities.
Energy Action for Students - National Energy Foundation
Ideas and activities about conserving energy, includes
geothermal energy crossword
Energy Quest
California Energy Commission - Lots of information
about renewable energy technologies, saving energy, puzzles,
and contests.
Environmental Protection Agency Explorers Club
Information about recycling, pollution, and EPA efforts; games
and activities on air, water, garbage, recycling, etc.
Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technology Program
Covers the basics about hydrogen and fuel cells from the U.S.
Department of Energy.
EERE Kids: Learning About Saving Energy—For Young Scholars
Learning About Saving Energy - DOE's basic fact sheet about
the uses of energy and many ways it can be conserved.
EERE Kids: Learning About Renewable Energy—For Young Scholars
Learning about Renewable Energy - DOE's basic fact sheet about
renewable energy sources in PDF format; includes a glossary and links to other organizations.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences:
Environmental Health Science Education
Curricular material and student activities about the environment.
Seattle City Light’s Kids Exploring Energy
This Shockwave-enhanced site
teaches the basics of energy to fourth and fifth graders in
an interesting way.
Watt’s on Your Mind?
A mad scientist describes uses
for renewable energy, and shows how to conserve it.
Includes Fun Facts, energy saving tips, and the Monster Time
game.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory:
Learning about Renewable Energy
Renewable technologies, renewable energy basics, and providing links to further information.
Franklin Institute
Materials and Activites from the Franklin Institute on the
origins and implementation of wind energy |
