Designing a Sustainable Neighborhood: An Interdisciplinary Project-Based Energy and Engineering Unit in the Seventh-Grade Classroom

Journal Article | August 2017

Learn to design homes that are both energy efficient and affordable.

Are You Dressed for a Spacewalk? Harnessing Student Interest in Space Exploration to Engage Them in Energy and Engineering

Journal Article | February 2017

Challenge students to design a spacesuit that can maintain a safe temperature for astronauts who are working in space.

The Sidewalk Project: Students work with their community to invent a heated sidewalk powered by an alternative energy source

Journal Article | March 2005

High school physics students from Littleton, New Hampshire, conducted experiments in an effort to use alternative energy to power a sidewalk heating system by participating in a program that provides grants to high…

Combustion and Energy Transfer Experiments: A Laboratory Model for Linking Core Concepts Across the Science Curriculum

Journal Article | December 2006

Core concepts can be integrated throughout lower-division science and engineering courses by using a series of related, cross-referenced laboratory experiments. Starting with butane combustion in chemistry, we expanded…

Research and Teaching: Teaching With External Representations—The Case of a Common Energy-Level Diagram in Chemistry

Journal Article | August 2010

Diagrams and figures play a central role in science and science education. Research has indicated that, when presented and used properly in a classroom setting, these external representations can contribute to students…

Field Trip Preparation: Increasing student knowledge about matter and energy before a field trip

Journal Article | January 2003

When student interest is waning toward the end of the school year a class field trip will catch their attention. In this article, activities and discussion about matter and energy prepare students for a more rewarding…

Harnessing Solar Energy, Grade 4: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (e-book)

eBook | November 2017

What if you could challenge your fourth graders to use solar energy to provide the world with clean water? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Harnessing Solar Energy outlines a…

Energy: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You Can Teach it (e-Book)

eBook | January 2002

Confounded by kinetic energy? Suspect that teaching about simple machines isn’t really so simple? Exasperated by electricity? If you fear the study of energy is beyond you, this entertaining book will do more than…