• What Every Teacher Should Know
• For All Grades
• For Grades 1-5
• For Grades 6 - 8
• Through the 12thGrade and Beyond
• DOE Student Science Pograms, Teacher Training Courses, and Laboratories
• Other DOE Education Sites
• Crash on electricity, radio, corporate business, law, and patent rights

Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies are complex. But the basic concepts and principles can be presented in different ways to engage students of all ages.

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Teacher: “Oh NO! I’ve got to teach something I know next to nothing about and need a quick resource. Isn’t there some website that can help?”

Response: “Yes, there are free resources here, organized by age-grade and subject matter, on all kinds of aspects of energy and science. Lesson plans can be selected by following a variety of paths, depending on how your students learn.”

What Every Teacher Should Know

Teachers face a wide set of problems, one of which is to find good age-grade and subject matter resources for energy. Or they want to point the student along a particular path of learning. Or they want to do a quick-learn on an unfamiliar topic - so the subject can be taught in the immediate future with confidence and ease. Or they want projects to keep the class engaged. Let's see if the following helps?

• Beams Activity (for your 6th, 7th, 8th grades)
• Climate Change Research for students
• Water & Energy Curriculum (& with strands that follow VA's SOLs)
• Energy - a Unifying Concept (very dense reading)
• Energy Education Resources: Kindergarten Through 12th Grade (cheap & free resources)
• Stimulate lifetime interests in Science through STARS
• Energy in the Classroom - Correlation of National Energy Education Development (NEED) Materials to the Learning Standards and Grade Level Expectations by State for Science (modify the NEED search query to get more precise hits)
• Guidelines for Knowledge about Energy (or What everyone should know about energy!)
• Is Recycling Energy Efficient? (a heavy thought piece)
• Lesson Plans for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement and Outreach Program (K -12th grade)
• NEED Curriculum Guides & Activities (scan down to the age-graded material)
• NIH Health Curriculum & Free Lesson Plans

For All Grades

• Hydrogen + Fuel Cells = Clean Energy (Electricity) + Water
• Learning With Lively Music Promotes Learning
• Milestones Introduction
• Ocean Energy, Tidepool Math and Sand

For Grades 1 - 5

• Einstein Science
• Computer Bug's Coloring Book
• Energy Quest, the California Way
• Learning About Fossil Fuels
• NEED Lesson Plans (scan down to the age-graded material)
• Physical Science Lessons
• Sunsite Funsite
• What is the nature of the fuels we buy?

For Grades 6 - 8

• ARM Lesson Plans
• Beams Activity
• Einstein Science
• Learning About Fossil Fuels
• NEED Lesson Plans (scan down to the age-graded material)
• Uses & Users of energy
  • ... in Transportation
  • ... in Commercial Buildings
  • ... in Residences
  • ... in Industrial & Manufacturing
• Milestones
  • Biomass
  • Coal
  • Electricity
  • Ethanol
  • Geothermal
  • General Uses
  • Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
  • Natural Gas
  • Nuclear
  • Oil/Petroleum
  • Photovoltaics
  • Solar Thermal
  • Wind
  • Transportation
• Uses Of:
  • Coal
  • Natural Gas
  • Oil/Petroleum
  • Nuclear Power
  • Electricity
• And here's a list of sites with lesson plans - California style.

Through the 12thGrade and Beyond

• University & Graduate Courses
• STARS
• Solar Energy Educational Resources
• Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
• Quarks to the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century
• Physics in a New Era: An Overview Report
• NEED Lesson Plans (scan down to the age-graded material)
• Hydrogen + Fuel Cells = Clean Energy (Electricity) + Water
• Human Genome Basics and Beyond
• Water & Energy Curriculum (& with strands that follow VA's SOLs)

DOE Laboratories have education programs: on-site student science programs, teacher training courses, and laboratories.

• Map of DOE National Laboratories
• Ames Laboratory
• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• BNL/BSA Online Classroom
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
• Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• National Energy Technology Laboratory
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Sandia National Laboratories
• Savannah River Site
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Look for the DOE grants and on-site programs that share their knowledge. These are run by your nearby DOE National Laboratory.

Other DOE Education Sites

• DOE Office of Science Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists
• DOE Energy Information Administration's Kids Page
• DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Kids Website
• Hydrogen + Fuel Cells = Clean Energy (Electricity) + Water
• Human Genome Basics and Beyond
• Particle Adventure
• Q

DOE Laboratories, Educational Programs: Minority Outreach Initiatives

• Age Grade: Middle School

Expanding Your Horizons Conference
Young Women - 6th through 8th grades.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Colorado +

Expanding Your Horizons Consortium
Young Women - 6th through 12th grades.
Livermore National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: San Francisco Bay Area

Dream Catcher Science Program
Native American Indian.
Sandia National Laboratories -- NM
Geographic Limits: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Manos Hands-on Science and Engineering Program
Hispanic middle school students
Sandia National Laboratories -- NM
Geographic Limits: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Hands-On Minds-On Technologies
(HmTech Science Program)
African American Students - 6th through 12th grades.
Sandia National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Near Sandia National Laboratory

• Age Grade: High School

Expanding Your Horizons Consortium
Young Women - 6th through 12th grades.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: San Francisco Bay Area

Minority High School Apprenticeship Program (MHSAP)
Research Apprenticeships to 9th/10th grade students: African Ancestored, Hispanic/Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Suffolk County and Inner City Outreach Schools, NY

Affirmative Action & Diversity Program
Coordination with Professional organizations
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: San Francisco Bay Area

DOE Renewable Energy and Environmental Protection (REEP) Summer Academy
Minority and inner city youth
Geographic Limits: Texas, Louisiana, and Colorado

Colorado Mathematics, Engineering and Scientific Achievement (MESA)
Economically disadvantaged ethnic minority and women
Geographic Limits: Colorado

Student Research Apprenticeship Program (SRAP)
Ethnic groups under-represented in science and engineering (Hispanic, African American and Native American)
Pacific Northwest Laboratories
Geographic Limits: Richland, Washington

Young Women in Science Program
Young Women - 11th Grade High School Students
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Near Richland, Washington

Hands-On Minds-On Technologies (HmTech Science Program)
African American Students - 6th through 12th grades.
Sandia National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Near Sandia National Laboratory

• Age Grade: Undergraduate

Native American Faculty and Student Internship Program
Native American Undergraduates
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Geographic Limits: From tribes currently engaged in one of the Department of Energy's programs

Additional information is available at the EIA Kids Page.

Date last updated: August 10, 2005