Site Guide: Energy
General Collections of Energy Resources
Teaching about Energy in Geoscience Courses - Energy plays a big role in current climate science, as well as in policy and economics as it relates to climate change. This website contains course descriptions, an activity collection, visualizations, recommended books and websites, workshop outcomes and more.
Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) – Led by science education experts, the CLEAN Pathway project builds on the efforts of the Climate Literacy Network and the establishment of the Climate Literacy: Essential Principles of Climate Science to steward a broad collection of resources, including a hand-picked and extensively reviewed activity collection, that facilitate students, teachers, and citizens becoming climate literate and informed about "the climate's influence on you and society and your influence on climate."
Blog
Earth and Mind Blog posts about energy – This handful of blog posts from the Earth and Mind blog related to energy.
Teaching Activities
Activities for Teaching about Energy - from Cutting Edge - This collection of activities includes a variety of pedagogies and is searchable by topic, including fossil fuels, renewable energy, energy policy, and more.
Teaching Energy with Quantitative Skills - This list of activities and assignments provide a way to integrate quantitative skill development into teaching about energy.
Carbon Footprint Collection - from Cutting Edge - This web collection contains a variety of classroom activities that can be used to help students measure or reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. This type of activity can be used with introductory level students via ready-made footprint calculators, or left as open-ended calculations in upper level courses.
Teaching activities related to energy - A searchable collection of over a thousand activities from across the SERC projects that are related to energy (both as a resource and in terms of Earth's energy balance).
Experienced-Based Environmental Projects - This creative approach offers a way for students to apply classroom topics like energy use, global warming, water quality and land use to their own lives, and to realize that although these issues may be global or regional, they ultimately have roots at the individual level. The module features
The Lifestyle Project, a three-week project that challenges students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles.
Visualizations
Energy Visualizations - These visualizations include videos, illustrations, maps, etc. that can support teaching about energy in the classroom. They involve fossil fuel formation and how fuels are converted to energy, resources about nuclear energy, and alternative energy.
Energy Balance Visualizations - A set of visualizations and supporting material that can be used effectively to teach students about the Earth's energy balance. Visualizations include simple animations, GIS-based maps, videos, as well as numerous illustrations and photos.
Oil Spills - Oil spills cause enormous amounts of damage to ocean and coastal ecosystems and the human populations that depend on them for subsistence, employment, and commerce. These resources speak to the effects of oil spills and aid educators in teaching about these catastrophic events.
Courses
SENCER Energy and the Environment course – This comprehensive course description from the Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) links energy with social and environmental issues. These web pages include extensive information about this course, student assessment, and related resources and can be used to create or revise an existing course on energy and the environment.
Teaching About Energy in Geoscience Courses - This page is part of a workshop on teaching about energy in the classroom. It includes a list and description of courses taught about energy and the environment, including courses related to climate change and alternative energy sources.
Workshops
Teaching Energy Awareness: Understanding Sources and Uses - An online workshop held April 11 - 12 and 18 - 19, 2011. This workshop was for undergraduate faculty who are interested in bringing energy-related topics into their courses, or who already teach about energy but may be looking for new approaches. This workshop was part of the
CLEAN professional development series.
Teaching about Energy in Geoscience Courses - Energy plays a big role in current climate science, as well as in policy and economics as it relates to climate change. This website contains course descriptions, an activity collection, visualizations, recommended books and websites, workshop outcomes and more.
Teaching About Energy in Geoscience Courses: Current Research and Pedagogy - Saturday, October 30, 2010 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, in conjunction with the GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado
Related Site Guides
Sustainability Site Guide
Climate Change Site Guide
