Environmental Education | Region 8

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.

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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