Now, geologists and petroleum engineers predict a new peak in oil production, but this time it will be a global peak. It is important to have alternative energy resources available for human use so that when this new peak hits, we have the energy resources to keep the infrastructure of our societies operating.
Make sure students understand that the bag and beads are intended to represent a country and its energy resources mix; we call this a model. Class discussion: Regroup and compare answers among the different "countries. Suggested questions and topics to cover:. Worksheet : At activity end, have students hand in their data tables and answers to the worksheet discussion questions for teacher review. This activity was developed under National Science Foundation grant nos.
However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policies of the National Science Foundation, and you should not assume endorsement by the federal government. Why Teach Engineering in K? Find more at TeachEngineering. Quick Look Grade Level: 8 Time Required: 45 minutes 30 minutes for game and worksheet; 20 minutes for class discussion.
Energy Resources and Systems. Quick Look. Print this activity. Suggest an edit. Discuss this activity. Curriculum in this Unit Units serve as guides to a particular content or subject area. TE Newsletter. Subscribe to TE Newsletter. Student pairs remove beads—representing units of renewable and non-renewable energy—from a bag—representing a country. A certain number of beads are removed from the bag each "year. A student worksheet with instructions, data collection table and discussion questions is provided.
Engineering Connection Engineers research, develop and design equipment that captures energy from renewable and fossil fuel resources for human use. Grades 6 - 8 Do you agree with this alignment? Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.
All human activity draws on natural resources and has both short and long-term consequences, positive as well as negative, for the health of people and the natural environment.
Scientific knowledge can describe the consequences of actions but does not necessarily prescribe the decisions that society takes. Models can be used to represent systems and their interactions. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Discuss this activity. Curriculum in this Unit Units serve as guides to a particular content or subject area. TE Newsletter.
Subscribe to TE Newsletter. Summary Use this board game to introduce the concepts of energy use in our lives and the very real impact that personal choices can have on our energy consumption, energy bills and fuel supply.
The game begins as students select cards that define their modes of transportation and home design. The players roll dice and move around the board, landing on "choice" or "situation" blocks and selecting cards that describe consumer choices and real-life events that impact their energy consumption and annual energy bills. As the players pass gasoline stations or energy bill gates, they must pay annual expenses as defined by their original cards, with amounts altered by the choices they've made along the way.
Gasoline cards are collected to represent total consumption. Too many gas-guzzling vehicles can result in total depletion of their gasoline supply — at which point everyone must walk or ride the bus. At the end of the game, the players count their remaining dollars to determine the winner. Discussion questions probe the students to interpret what choices they made and which situations they encountered had the most impact on their energy consumption and energy bills.
All game board, card and money files are available online free of charge. Grades 6 - 8 Do you agree with this alignment? Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise. Cause and effect relationships may be used to predict phenomena in natural or designed systems. All human activity draws on natural resources and has both short and long-term consequences, positive as well as negative, for the health of people and the natural environment.
Scientific knowledge can describe the consequences of actions but does not necessarily prescribe the decisions that society takes. Social and cultural priorities and values are reflected in technological devices.
Grades 6 - 8 More Details View aligned curriculum Do you agree with this alignment? Analyze how different technological systems often interact with economic, environmental, and social systems. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - Math recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics Grades Pre-K - 12 More Details View aligned curriculum Do you agree with this alignment?
Human activities also can induce hazards through resource acquisition, urban growth, land-use decisions, and waste disposal. Such activities can accelerate many natural changes. Grades 5 - 8 More Details View aligned curriculum Do you agree with this alignment?
Science and technology have advanced through contributions of many different people, in different cultures, at different times in history. But, like chocolate and peanut butter, the question is — can these two great technologies be even better together? To help answer this question, the Department of Energy is examining the benefits and potential synergies of energy systems that feature both nuclear and renewable technologies. Integrated systems are unique because they can alter how much energy they provide to their industrial subsystem and the electrical grid depending on the value of each commodity at a given time.
The flexible production of energy and industrial goods has the potential to make integrated energy systems more responsive to changing market dynamics, and more profitable for their investors. Our two offices — the Office of Nuclear Energy and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy — have worked together with the Idaho National Laboratory INL and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL to host a series of workshops with members of industry, academia, policy makers, and international organizations to get a better understanding of how useful these types of systems could be.
Workshop participants identified several potential benefits of integrated nuclear-renewable systems, including the production of flexible, zero-carbon electricity and thermal energy, in addition to short and long term resiliency and reliability benefits to the electrical grid. Participants also helped to identify two high-priority case studies for the Offices of Nuclear Energy and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the national labs to initially examine: a synthetic gasoline production facility in Texas and a desalination plant in Arizona.
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