Title: Energy Sources and Use
Description: This problem based lesson allows students to research and become involved with creating solutions with renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. They will compare and contrast each alternative source of energy.
Standard(s):
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.

Title: Energy Quest Room
Description: This interactive website allows students to navigate through the many, varied, and unusual facts about energy. There is a plethora of activities that engage student learning on energy sources and alternatives to fossil fuels.
Standard(s):
[S1] (3) 3: Describe ways energy from the sun is used.
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.

Title: Energy Kid's Page
Description: Online energy education resources include energy activities for kids and materials to help classroom teachers teach about energy.
Standard(s):
[S1] (3) 3: Describe ways energy from the sun is used.
[S1] (4) 1: Describe how electrical circuits can be used to produce light, heat, sound, and magnetic fields.
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.
[S1] (8) 11: Explain the law of conservation of energy and its relationship to energy transformation, including chemical to electrical, chemical to heat, electrical to light, electrical to mechanical, and electrical to sound.
[S1] PHY (9-12) 9: Describe quantitative relationships among charge, current, electrical potential energy, potential difference, resistance, and electrical power for simple series, parallel, or combination direct current (DC) circuits.
[S1] E&S (9-12) 1: Describe sources of energy, including solar, gravitational, geothermal, and nuclear.
[S1] ENV (9-12) 2: Evaluate various fossil fuels for their effectiveness as energy resources.
[S1] ENV (9-12) 3: Evaluate other sources of energy for their effectiveness as alternatives to fossil fuels.
[TC2] (0-2) 7: Use digital tools to access and retrieve information.
[TC2] (3-5) 8: Collect information from a variety of digital sources.

Title: Energy Quest Room
Description: This interactive website allows students to navigate through the many, varied, and unusual facts about energy. There is a plethora of activities that engage student learning on energy sources and alternatives to fossil fuels.
Standard(s):
[S1] (3) 3: Describe ways energy from the sun is used.
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.

Title: Power Up!
Description: This tool, created by Science NetLinks, challenges students to think about the positive and negative consequences of various types of power. The site provides students with a specific monetary budget, which they can use to purchase power plants for their city. As students choose their types of power, they learn how much power the plant provides, how much it costs, and the effect it could have on the environment. While this page links to the overview of the tool for grades 6-8, you can access reviews for additional grades and benchmarks using the navigation tools at the top of the overview.
Standard(s):
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.
[TC2] (6-8) 13: Use digital tools to formulate solutions to authentic problems.

Title: Chemiluminscence Light
Description: This lab activity is an engaging activity for students that develops the concept of chemical reactions. This particular chemical reaction produces light energy without heat energy.
Standard(s):
[S1] (5) 1: Identify evidence of chemical changes through color, gas formation, solid formation, and temperature change.
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.

Title: Rubber Bands and Heat
Description: In this lab activity, students will examine thermal properties of rubber and how it relates to heat energy.
Standard(s):
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.

Title: Bending Water
Description: This engaging experiment will allow students to discover static electricity.
Standard(s):
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.

Title: Blue Sky - Red Sunset
Description: Students will investigate how light creates blue skies and orange sunsets.
Standard(s):
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.

Title: The Mummy's Tomb Raceway
Description: In this activity, the students build a roller coaster for a mummy while relating the concepts of potential and kinetic energy.
Standard(s):
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.

Title: Energy Quest Room
Description: This interactive website allows students to navigate through the many, varied, and unusual facts about energy. There is a plethora of activities that engage student learning on energy sources and alternatives to fossil fuels.
Standard(s):
[S1] (3) 3: Describe ways energy from the sun is used.
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.

Title: Power Up!
Description: This tool, created by Science NetLinks, challenges students to think about the positive and negative consequences of various types of power. The site provides students with a specific monetary budget, which they can use to purchase power plants for their city. As students choose their types of power, they learn how much power the plant provides, how much it costs, and the effect it could have on the environment. While this page links to the overview of the tool for grades 6-8, you can access reviews for additional grades and benchmarks using the navigation tools at the top of the overview.
Standard(s):
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.
[TC2] (6-8) 13: Use digital tools to formulate solutions to authentic problems.

Title: Energy Kid's Page
Description: Online energy education resources include energy activities for kids and materials to help classroom teachers teach about energy.
Standard(s):
[S1] (3) 3: Describe ways energy from the sun is used.
[S1] (4) 1: Describe how electrical circuits can be used to produce light, heat, sound, and magnetic fields.
[S1] (5) 4: Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical.
[S1] (8) 11: Explain the law of conservation of energy and its relationship to energy transformation, including chemical to electrical, chemical to heat, electrical to light, electrical to mechanical, and electrical to sound.
[S1] PHY (9-12) 9: Describe quantitative relationships among charge, current, electrical potential energy, potential difference, resistance, and electrical power for simple series, parallel, or combination direct current (DC) circuits.
[S1] E&S (9-12) 1: Describe sources of energy, including solar, gravitational, geothermal, and nuclear.
[S1] ENV (9-12) 2: Evaluate various fossil fuels for their effectiveness as energy resources.
[S1] ENV (9-12) 3: Evaluate other sources of energy for their effectiveness as alternatives to fossil fuels.
[TC2] (0-2) 7: Use digital tools to access and retrieve information.
[TC2] (3-5) 8: Collect information from a variety of digital sources.