Title: A Family Guide to the Sun
Description: Discover an innovative collection of puzzles, pictures, poetry and projects all designed to stimulate enjoyable co-learning experiences between kids aged 6-13 and the caring adults in their lives.
URL:
http://www.spaceweathercenter.org/education/02/02.html
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Title: Alternative Energy Lessons
Description: Twenty-four investigations about energy and alternative fuels such as propane, natural gas, and electricity primarily in physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science. Emphasis is on science, but English, math, art, and social studies are included.
URL:
http://www.energyeducation.tx.gov/energy/section_1/topi ...
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Title: The Energy Story - Introduction
Description: This page introduction on Energy gives us the importance of energy: why it is one of the most fundamental parts of our universe. It also lists the different forms of energy.
URL:
http://energyquest.ca.gov/story/index.html
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Title: The Energy Story – Chapter 6: Turbines, Generators and Power Plants
Description: On this page, you’ll learn how electricity is generated in a power plant. The page contains explanation on how the generator works. Graphics in the page conceptually support the understanding of the page’s intent.
URL:
http://energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter06.html
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Title: The Energy Story – Chapter 7: Electricity Transmission System
Description: On this page, you’ll learn how electricity gets from the power plant to homes, school and businesses.
URL:
http://energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter07.html
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Title: How the Sun Works
Description: Examine the fascinating world of our nearest star. Look at the parts of the Sun, the amazing way it makes light and heat, and its major features.
URL:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/sun.htm
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Title: Sun-Earth Education Connection
Description: The Sun-Earth Media Viewer is an experimental Flash-based viewer. It allows visitors to zoom and pan live NASA solar and Earth images. In addition, it contains video interviews with scientists and detailed scientific animations.
URL:
http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/viewer/flash/index.html
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Title: Technology and the Environment
Description: This page provides content and background on various types of alternative energy, including solar power, wind energy, sea energy, biofuels, hydropower, and more.
URL:
http://www.technologystudent.com/energy1/engex.htm
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Title: Fusion in the Sun!
Description: This Java Applet simulates the proton-proton chain fusion reaction that powers the Sun. This applet can be made to show that reaction rates proceed faster at higher temperatures and that below a certain temperature some reactions do not occur at all. Teachers can insert this applet into their interactive presentations and/or assign the page to students to use on their own.
URL:
http://www.astro.ubc.ca/~scharein/applets/Sim/fusion/Fu ...
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Title: Waste Management
Description: This website contains K-12 lesson plans. K-8 has interactive tools to help students rethink about what they know about waste. Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Reduce are emphasized. Under classroom tools there are Earth Day resources, teacher and student resources and classroom display materials. These posters are downloadable and promote recycling ideas. Embedded videos are part of the background information for the lessons and some of the interactives. Case studies present stories about the latest news about the use of recycling. The website belongs to a business, Waste Management and provides a point of view section, How We Think Green (videos), media (latest news) and press releases.
URL:
http://www.thinkgreen.com/
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Title: Solar Energy
Description: This part of Science Companions Virtual Field Trip project. Solar Energy was released in November 2009. This new series of virtual publications connects current events and science lessons. Solar Energy presents photos and a short story about President Obama's visit( Oct. 29, 2009) to Sarasota, Florida to see the largest solar energy facility(90,000 solar panels) to generate electricity. Lesson plans on energy transfer are available for grades 4-6.
URL:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/21830596/Solar-Energy-Field_T ...
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Title: Exploring Alternative Energy Sources
Description: This lesson can easily be modified for middle school. Students read a NewsHour Extra article, "High Gas Prices Could Mean Cold Classrooms and Canceled Trips" and do several activities around it to explore alternative energy, ending with presentations.
URL:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/ ...
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Title: Energy and Cars: What Does the Future Hold?
Description: Students explore reasons why attitudes toward fossil fuel use and alternative energy sources may change over the next 50 years, how changing attitudes may affect car technology, current alternatives under research. Middle school adaptations are suggested
URL:
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/progra ...
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Title: Stratospheric Ozone
Description: This site provides an overview of the ozone layer found at the top of the stratosphere and includes three classroom activities.
URL:
http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_6_1.htm
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