Promising Energy Education Practices
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Many teachers would agree that in the field of education, energy is a difficult topic to teach. It's invisible, yet we depend upon it everyday! As teachers prepare their students for life in the 21st century, energy-related environmental, social, and political problems make energy education more important than ever. Global warming, exponential population growth, and dwindling fossil fuels demand that students are conscious of the energy choices they make and the effects of those choices upon the future.
In response to this challenge, some teachers have been working to increase the energy literacy of their students. Yet according to a 1998 study by the Energy Center of Wisconsin, 47 percent of Wisconsin teachers do not teach energy. By providing examples of teacher successes in energy education, it is our hope that others will be inspired to teach about energy.
This book was created to assist "energy educators." K-12 teachers from around Wisconsin volunteered the submissions contained here, which give examples of how to teach about the relevance and importance of energy at every grade level in any subject area. These energy educators have successfully brought energy into their classrooms -- from food chain dynamics to investigating renewable energy sources to learning how energy use has shaped our past and current environmental, political, and sociological issues. Promising energy education practices range from ten minute motivational activities to year-round projects, and include creative twists and adaptations to already existing activities or projects dealing with energy. These promising practices can be used as springboards for creating even more activities, projects, and lesson plans in energy education.
You can view the Promising Energy Education Practices manual itself right here! To read these files, you will need to have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. This software may be downloaded for free from Adobe. Note that some of these files are rather large!
- Table of Contents (69k)
- Lesson Plans
- Projects and Events (214k)
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Professional Development (118k)
- Additional Resources
Do you have teaching ideas to share? Send them to KEEP at energy@uwsp.edu.
Produced under a 1998-99 grant from the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board
Copyright ©2000 Energy Center of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Environmental Education Board
Send comments and suggestions to KEEP, energy@uwsp.edu or call 715-346-4770.
Copyright 2001 KEEP
