Introducing PLT's New Energy & Society Program

Enhancing the Energy & Society Kit Are you looking for more information and additional resources? Would you like to know how other educators are using the materials? Do you have something to share? Enter through this link to get more out of the Energy & Society Kit.

Help Us Evaluate Energy & Society and Make it Even Better!

If you have used Energy & Society in the classroom, then we need your opinion and ideas! We are conducting a professional evaluation of the Energy & Society curriculum with an outside evaluator. Educators with Energy & Society curriculum should have received a letter or email message containing a username and password for this survey. Complete the survey by November 20, 2003! If you did not receive a password and would like to take the survey or have any questions, please email ami.neibergermiller@verizon.net.
Clicking on this link will take you to the evaluation survey (password required)

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PLT's Energy & Society program provides formal and nonformal educators with tools and activities to help students in grades PreK-8 learn about their relationship with energy and investigate the environmental issues related to energy's role in society. Energy & Society helps students develop critical thinking skills to make decisions about their personal energy use. In addition to hands-on activities, Energy & Society integrates music and dance to enhance the study of energy issues.

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Materials in the Energy & Society kit include the following:

• Energy & Society Activity Guide: A background section for educators; an outline of how to use the Energy & Society materials with students; correlations to national standards in science, social studies, and English language arts; a student energy primer; a collection of six activities that educators can use with the Where is the energy? and What powers the move? posters; ideas for action projects and science fair projects; energy-related case studies; a list of energy-related children's literature and other resources; lyrics to the songs on the Billy B CD; and a glossary.

• Energy & Me music CD: A collection of 15 energy-related songs from singer/songwriter, Billy B. (The music CD may also be purchased separately through Billy B's website: www.billybproductions.com.

• Energy & Me music and dance video: Billy B and students perform dances to five of the songs from the music CD, and complete instructions are provided for three of the dances

  Activity Guide

  Music CD

  Music Video

• Energy & Society posters entitled Where is the energy? and What powers the move?: Visual teaching tools for introducing students to the topic of energy and the issues surrounding it. Each kit includes a set of 8 of each poster.

   

See what the program is about by clicking on the link below:
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To find out where and when Energy & Society workshops and presentations are happening go to the PLT Calendar of Events and select Energy & Society under event-type.

Click on a song from the list below for a sample of Billy B's Energy & Me CD.

• Energy & Me
• Energia Y Yo
• We Can Save Energy
• It is the Energy, It is the Sun

Click on the link below for a glimpse of the energizing moves from the Energy & Me dance video.
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The Energy & Society program was made possible with a generous grant from the American Petroleum Institute and is guided by an Energy & Society Advisory Committee. The materials development process began in 1999 with the first of four regional writing workshops. These workshops brought together 100's of educators and energy professionals to develop the new and exciting supplement to the PLT materials. In addition, dozens of educators pilot tested the activities and materials with their students.

Energy & Society Advisory committee:
Janet Ady, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Red Cavaney, American Petroleum Institute
Jo Cooper, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Gail Epping, Aldo Leopold Nature Center
Mary Hornig Butterworth, American Coal Foundation
Kathy McGlauflin, Project Learning Tree
Marilyn Nemzer, The Geothermal Education Office
Barbara Pietrucha, National Science Teachers Association
Blanche Sheinkopf, Energy Smart Schools, U.S. Department of Energy
Suzanne Spradling, Center for Environmental Education, Oklahoma State University
Mary Spruill, The National Energy Education Development Project
Al Stenstrup, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Ryan Stroupe, Pacific Energy Center, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Carolyn Sumners, Houston Museum of Natural Science
Vince Torres, Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, University of Texas