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Teaching Energy

   

Today, more than ever, consumers have the ability and the interest to choose clean energy, including energy efficiency, renewable energy, and efficient combined heat and power.

Using energy more efficiently through more efficient products, such as ENERGY STAR qualified appliances or light bulbs, or through more efficient generation, such as Combined Heat and Power, reduces the amount of fuel required to produce a unit of energy output and reduces the corresponding emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases. Electricity from renewable resources such as solar, geothermal, and wind technologies generally does not contribute to climate change or local air pollution since no fuels are combusted in these processes.

Reducing the environmental impacts of your energy use is easy and can be done by making good energy decisions.

Teaching about energy is an important step to making good energy decisions! See teaching resources below.

Resources

Some of the sites listed on this page are not on the EPA Web site. Please see our disclaimer information. EPA Exit Disclaimer

For Kids

ENERGY STAR for Kids http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=kids.kids_index

 

Energy Kids Page

 

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/

 

Power Profiler

 

http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/how-clean.html

 

Kids Saving Energy

 

http://www.eere.energy.gov/kids/

 

Smart Energy Use

 

http://www.energy.gov/forstudentsandkids.htm

 

Alliance to Save Energy

 

http://ase.org/section/_audience/consumers/kids

 

Energy Hog

 

http://www.energyhog.org/

 

Energy Quest

 

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/

For Teachers

National Energy Education Development Project http://need.org/

 

The National Theatre for Children Energy Programs

 

http://www.nationaltheatre.com/
ntccom/ntcprograms.asp

 

On this site you'll find links to more than 350 lesson plans and activities on energy efficiency and renewable energy for grades K-12.

 

http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/education
/lessonplans/

 

Find wind energy curricula and teaching materials for both younger and older students.

 

http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/
schools_teaching_materials.asp

 

This section features links to lesson plans for teaching students about energy, energy efficiency, and renewable energy.

 

http://www.stocktongov.com/energysaving
/schools/lessonplans.cfm

 

The Energy Song

 

http://www.container-recycling.org/kids.htm

 

Sun Power!

 

http://www.kidsforsavingearth.org/

 

ENERGY STAR for Schools

 

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?
c=k12_schools.bus_schoolsk12

 

ProTeacher Energy Collection of Ideas

 

http://www.proteacher.org/c/409_Energy.html

 

Green Schools Alliance

 

http://www.greenschoolsalliance.org/greentools
/RCcurriculum/teachtools.html

 

Teaching Energy Conservation

 

http://www.recycleworks.org/schools
/greenschools.html

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