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Find more classroom activities in the Energy4me Kit! The Energy4me Kit offers teaching aids, speaker resources, sample presentations, classroom activities and hands-on experiments for teaching energy in the classroom in a fun, exciting way. Activities for every grade level are included.
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Top 10 Reasons to Become a Petroleum Engineer A resource for high school students on petroleum engineering careers Orders of 100 brochures or fewer are free! Complete the special request form and email it to EnergyEd@Energy4me.org or fax to +1.866.719.8241 (US only) or +1.972.739.6192 (Non-US). |
Presentations
Petroleum Engineers Make a World of Difference (secondary students)
Oil and Gas Energy—Myths vs Reality (adults)
Speaker Resources
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BBC Schools (UK): Energy and radioactivity / Electricity - interactive learning materials, fact sheets, tests and printable worksheets students can use on their own or in a classroom. Resources for review, peer tutoring, parents helping their children, and self-directed learners. Geared toward ages 11 and 16.
BBC Schools (UK): Radiation and matter / Nuclear reactions - Bite Size Revision section of the BBC Schools website targeting secondary students (ages 16+)
Centre for Energy : Teacher guides–Canada
Control The Nuclear Power Plant (Sweden) - Teaches visually about nuclear power plants, featuring an interactive diagram and a Java applet that allow visitors to simulate controlling the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Energy Information Administration : Energy classroom activities.
INSC: Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors - Argonne's International Nuclear Safety Center (INSC) website features maps of power reactor locations worldwide. Includes information on power reactors only. Experimental reactors and other nuclear facilities are not included. Recommended to high school students and teachers.
MIT OpenCourseWare: Highlights for High School - Provided free, open source teaching and learning materials to high school teachers and students.
National Energy Education Development Project : Energy education for students in kindergarten through 12th grade
National Nuclear Data Center - The National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC) of Brookhaven National Laboratory collects, evaluates, and disseminates nuclear physics data for basic nuclear research and for applied nuclear technologies. Their interactive Chart of
NEWTON "Ask a Scientist" - Argonne National Laboratory's Division of Educational Programs provides "Ask A Scientist" to answer questions from K-12 students and teachers that are not commonly found in libraries, reference books or text books. The questions are answered by experts.
Nuclear Energy Institute - Science Club - Website maintained by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). The site features resources for students and teachers, including animations that explain the fundamental principles of nuclear energy.
Nuclides is an excellent resource tool for high school teachers and students.
Nucleonica.net (European Commission) - A nuclear science website developed at the Institute for Transuranium Elements (European Commission)for students and professionals. Provides web-based applications - dosimetry and shielding etc. Offers free educational resources (suitable for high school students.Offshore Energy Center : Outreach program for students in kindergarten through 12th grade
Partical Adventure - An interactive tour of quarks, neurotinos, antimatter, extra diminsions, dark matter, accelerators and partical detectors. Site is available in several languages, and is presented by the Particle Data Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Planete-Energies : Teacher guide–France
Oil & Gas UK : Energy information–UK
RSC Electronic Databook (UK) - Website aimed at secondary science students ages 11-16, and post-16 chemistry students and teachers. Databases that can be searched for a wide range of properties of elements and compounds, The site also includes important tools for physics such as emission line spectra and radioactive decay series.
Schoolphysics.co.uk (UK) - A website for both students and teachers of physics, whether studied as a single subject or as part of a combined science course.
Schoolscience.co.uk (UK) - Free website to enrich science teaching and learning by the UK Association for Science Education. Provides a comprehensive and valuable directory of resources, information and contacts for science teachers and students. The information is classified by students ages.
Sellafield Ltd. : Succeeding with Science (UK) - Part of the Succeeding with Science education programme supported by Sellafield Ltd (on behalf of the British Nuclear Decommissioning Authority). This site is primarily for teachers ("produced for teachers by teachers").
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) - is a DOE funded lab located in Virginia conducting basic research of the atom's nucleus at the quark level. The Science Education website provides resources for students and educators: lesson plans, hands-on activities, worksheets, reference materials Games and puzzles are also available.
The information level is suitable for high-school students.
Webelements.com (UK) - Features an interactive periodic table with extensive information about elements and compounds: history and uses, data on simple compounds, electronic properties, physical properties, crystallography and nuclear properties.
