Resource Library

Light Bulb Finder

The Light Bulb Finder is an app that helps determine the best light bulbs for their fixtures and preferences. It also places an order, and calculates savings and payback period from replacing current light bulbs. A great tool for a home or school energy audit.

 

Energyville

This online, interactive game puts students in charge of the energy demands of a city. Players must choose energy sources in the present that will create a sustainable future city in 2030.

Energy Hog

In this online game, students eliminate energy hogs that pig out on wasted energy - in the process discovering fun facts about using energy wisely at home. The teacher's section of the game's website provides a set of classroom activities that include lessons on energy sources, energy use at home and how to bust energy hogs to save energy.

Go Green @ School: 20 Great Ways Students and Teachers Can Help Save the Planet

This book provides 20 ideas organized into four commonly recognized areas of environmental concern: Air, Energy, The Earth and Water. All ideas in Go Green @ School are ready to implement immediately and are supplemented with tools such as forms, visuals, reminder cards, contracts and instructional plans.

Alliance to Save Energy Green Schools Program

Alliance to Save Energy's Green Schools Program trains to use a diagnostic toolkit that assesses the energy usage in their school. The school building becomes a learning lab for students to apply science, math, and even language arts to solve a global challenge.

Workforce Development for Teachers and Students

The mission of the U.S. Department of Energy's Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) program is to provide a continuum of opportunities to students and teachers of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Carbon Dioxide Trends

Students graph data to examine seasonal and long-term atmospheric carbon dioxide trends over the past 45 years and then predict future carbon dioxide emissions.

Energy Sources and Energy Use

Students discuss relationships between energy use and pollution, sort energy sources into renewable and non-renewable and create a pie chart of the estimated energy use of the class.

Building the Basic PVC Wind Turbine

This plan shows how to make a rugged and inexpensive classroom wind turbine that can be used for lab bench-based blade design experiments.

How Big is Your Carbon Footprint?

Students learn the extent of their ecological footprint and explore the mean, median, mode and standard deviation of a set of data.

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