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An Energy Smart Students workshop will raise your Energy IQ – and increase your ability to promote understanding and action among your students. Attendees will receive FREE curriculum* correlated to the New York State Learning Standards in Math, Science, Technology, Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Family and Consumer Science.

Curriculum includes: an Energy Education Teacher’s Guide; an information-packed CD that includes the Conceptual Framework for Energy Education, basic information on energy and an Energy Glossary; color posters; and class sets of the Energy Action Challenge to use with your students.

Announcing New Workshops in Solar Energy based on the School Power…Naturally ^SM curriculum.

Focus on Solar – Grades 5-8

Looking for an innovative way to teach your middle school students about the sun and solar energy? This hands-on workshop will provide you with interactive lessons and activities designed to teach students about the role solar energy plays in providing power for our homes, schools, and workplaces. Each teacher will receive lesson plans, student activity sheets, and a complete kit for building a solar-powered car.

Focus on Solar – Grades 9-12

Why does solar matter? Solar electric power, photovoltaics (PV), enables us to harness the power of the sun to generate electricity. In this hands-on workshop, you will work with PV cells and learn how to gather and interpret live solar data. Each teacher will receive a kit for building a model solar house and a series of lesson plans and student activities for bringing solar energy concepts into the classroom.

ABCs of Energy – Grades K-3

The ABCs are one of the building blocks of primary students. Why not teach the ABCs of energy at the same time? This hands-on workshop introduces basic energy content through fun and engaging activities that will lay the ground work for energy education at an early age. Students will apply classroom learning to their own life through a family-oriented take-home activity.
ABCs of Energy - Sample Agenda

The 4 Es of Energy – Grades 4-6

Do you know the 4 Es of energy??? This interactive workshop promotes an understanding of energy’s relationship with the environment, our economy, efficiency AND the all-important “E” – education. You will use hands-on activities to explore energy forms and sources, global climate change and actions we can take to address the energy challenges we face.
The 4 Es of Energy - Sample Agenda

Energy Trilogy – Grades 7-12

Energy – we all depend upon it every day, but what are the consequences for the global community’s growing demand for it?? This interactive workshop will highlight the Energy Trilogy – how economics, efficiency and the environment relate to the energy challenges before us. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to introduce your students to the impacts of their energy use and explore actions we can take to make a difference.
Energy Trilogy - Sample Agenda

KidWind

Are you a teacher looking for wind lesson plans? Do you want to learn more about the fastest growing renewable energy resource in the world? Do you need turbines for classroom experiments? Then sign up for a Wind Energy workshop near you.

• July 9, 2009 9:00 am -3:00 pm Somers, NY – Westchester County
• July 15, 2009 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Syracuse, NY – Onondaga County
• July 17, 2009 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Delanson, NY – Schenectady County