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This lesson, developed by Cathy Grimes, demonstrates the creation, extraction, and refinement of crude oil, allowing students to follow the process from their local gas station and into their parents' cars. Developed for students at the fifth-grade level, this lesson teaches students to reproduce...

This page from the U.S. Department of Energy's WINDExchange Program provides curricula and teaching materials about wind energy for elementary, middle, and high school students. Some featured links include the 4-H Group's Wind Curriculum, which includes a youth guide, a facilitators guide, and...

This lesson, from the Northern Wyoming Community College District, focuses on the production of wind energy and connects "Newtonian Mechanics, electromagnetism, and environmental concerns in an engineering design process." Students design a wind turbine for the conversion of kinetic energy into...

This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features a meteorology activity designed for sixth graders. In this activity, students learn to search for trends in weather forecasts then play the role of school officials to determine whether school should be closed for snow. In the...

Lesson Description: This lesson is the second of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. During this lesson, students work individually and in groups to measure wood blocks cut into fractional lengths and use...

This activity will demonstrate the process of work hardening and annealing of a copper. Students will get the opportunity to see the hardening of metal by deformation, experience the process of work hardening, explain the effects of work hardening in metals and experience property changes affected...