Catalog Search

This page allows searching across the SERC catalogs: the set of resources from the web and in print that have been selected as relevant by SERC-supported projects. The catalog draws from collections created directly by our partners as well as those harvested from other digital library collections.

Skip to search results Skip to search facet filtersSkip to text search formSkip to pagination


Current Search Limits:
Subject
Environmental Science > Energy

Results 1 - 10 of 289 matches

The Social Cost of Carbon part of CLEAN Collection

https://climatenow.com/video/social-cost-of-carbon/
With the help of two climate experts, this video discusses how the social cost of carbon is calculated, how it should (perhaps) be calculated, and why the effort to quantify this value is necessary ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Economics, Energy Policy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Energy:Energy Policy , Environmental Science:Energy
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Renewable Energy 101 part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kUE0BZtTRc&list=PLivjPD...
This is a National Geographic video that defines renewable energy and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of different examples.
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

TU Delft - OTEC part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHBVgRWAt3c
This video presents a brief introduction to an alternative energy source - ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC).
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Environmental Science:Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climatology , Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Oceanography, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Renew-a-Bead Game part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cla_act...
Students work in pairs to pick black and white beads out of a bag to represent the percent of renewable and nonrenewable resources used in different countries, and then graph the information.
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Fossil Fuels, Environmental Science:Energy, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Resource Type: Activities

Sustainability Metrics part of CLEAN Collection

https://serc.carleton.edu/eddie/teaching_materials/modul...
Sustainability is a complex term applied to many different contexts in a variety of ways. As a result, it can be challenging to determine how sustainable something really is. In this module, students ...
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Energy
Resource Type: Activities

Debating the Grid Example part of CLEAN Collection

https://cleanet.org/clean/literacy/teach_guidance/debate...
Students research electricity, its sources, how energy grids function, how to make grids most efficient, and how to bring different types of energy generation together to diversify grids. Students ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy, Energy:Energy Infrastructure, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Anthropogenic causes
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Curriculum Description

Can We Gas Up... Without Gas? part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-YtC3nwWwU
This video explores the benefits and challenges of electric vehicles, and looks at some of the ways we can decarbonize much larger modes of transportation.
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Be an Energy Star part of CLEAN Collection

https://akenergysmart.org/lesson-plans/be-an-energy-star/
This resource from AK Energy Smart uses background text, a worksheet, and a classroom activity to teach concepts related to calculating energy usage and cost per appliance by region. This resource ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Resource Type: Activities

Energy from the Sun part of CLEAN Collection

https://akenergysmart.org/lesson-plans/energy-from-the-sun/
In this lesson, students will discuss how we use energy every day and where it comes from. Students will then draw or sort energy flow diagrams and write a paragraph to explain their diagrams.
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Energy Infrastructure, Environmental Science:Energy
Resource Type: Activities

Energy Stories Reader's Theater part of CLEAN Collection

https://akenergysmart.org/lesson-plans/energy-stories-re...
In this activity students learn about the story of coal, firewood, wind, and how energy gets transferred to these different sources. It is set in a Reader's Theater type activity where students ...
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy, Environmental Science:Energy, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Energy:Fossil Fuels
Resource Type: Activities