Ryan+Tozier+Renewable+S'mores


 * Eco-ED Module Title: Renewable S’mores **

(Include brochure information on pages following this chart.) |||||||||| Students will learn a basic overview of the different types of renewable energy. Some of the history of renewable energy and the disasters of nuclear energy. Students will learn the challenges of optimizing a system by trying to make their own windmill. At the same time, they will see an application of solar energy in the form a solar oven to bake s’mores. ||  || Application of renewable energy ||||   ||   || (list) |||||||||| Understanding of potential for change, and of alternative ways of doing things and organizing society. ||  || (circle) || 5-7th  ||||||   ||   ||   || (list) |||||||||| At the end of this students will be able to: ||  || (list) |||||||||| * One solar oven built prior to curriculum ([] )  2. Different types of renewables  3. Renewable Energy Info  4. Intro to solar oven marshmallows  5. Activity – make windmill blades <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;"> 6. Testing blades <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;"> 7. Concluding Statement <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your student recently participated in an environmental education program about the renewable energy. Ask your child what they learned about… <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- the different types of renewable energy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- one thing that they didn’t previously know about renewable energy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- What are some of the disadvantages to renewable energy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- what their wind mill looked like. ||  || Attachments:
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Module Leader(s): **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(name) |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ryan Tozier ||||||  ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Short Description: **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">EcoEd Concept(s): **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(list) |||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Renewable Energy
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">EcoEd Literacy Goal(s): **
 * ^  |||||||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Understanding the history of disaster and decision-making failures, the vulnerability of some populations and regions, and varied approaches to risk management, reduction and communication. ||   ||
 * ^  |||||||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Having creative info-seeking practices, and animated analytic capabilities. ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intended Grade(s): **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intended Grade(s): **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Module Objectives: **
 * ^  |||||||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">List off many different type of renewable energy ||   ||
 * ^  |||||||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Understand that it isn’t the perfect solution it is made out to be ||   ||
 * ^  |||||||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Recognize the different ways of organizing a country to use renewables ||   ||
 * ^  |||||||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Understand one specific application of solar energy ||   ||
 * ^  |||||||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Recognize the difficulty in optimizing these technologies ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Materials needed: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One wind turbine built prior to curriculum ([])
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Poster board for blades
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">20-inch box fan or other wind source
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Duct tape
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hot glue/glue gun
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Extra dowels from turbine construction
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gram crackers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Marshmallows
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chocolate bars
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Plates and napkins ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Timeline: ** |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">0-10 minutes |||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro ||  ||
 * ^  |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10-30 minutes |||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Different types of renewables ||   ||
 * ^  |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">30-45 minutes |||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Renewable Energy Info ||   ||
 * ^  |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">45-50 minutes |||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Intro to solar oven marshmallows ||   ||
 * ^  |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">50-80 minutes |||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Activity – make windmill blades ||   ||
 * ^  |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">80-85 minutes |||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Testing blades ||   ||
 * ^  |||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">85-90 minutes |||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Concluding Statement ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Activity Description: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Provide enough detail so that someone else could run the workshop. Include worksheets on pages following this chart.) |||||||||| # <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Everyone introduces themselves
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Instructor will tell students that they will be learning about renewable energy today
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Instructor asks what students already know about renewable energy
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Instructor asks why students think we need renewable resources
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Activity Description: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Provide enough detail so that someone else could run the workshop. Include worksheets on pages following this chart.) |||||||||| # <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Everyone introduces themselves
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Instructor will tell students that they will be learning about renewable energy today
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Instructor asks what students already know about renewable energy
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Instructor asks why students think we need renewable resources
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A brief overview of the most common types of renewable energy: solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, tidal, ect., HUMAN POWER. ([]), also refer to the attached document for quick points
 * Cover what type of energy it harnesses and how to harnesses that energy
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Makes sure to give examples in the form of pictures or videos
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">First, quickly give numbers about US percent of energy that comes from renewable energy.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Show how behind the US is compared to other developed nations, (mention the summit in London 2015 and the agreement that they made for the future)( [|http://www.c2es.org/international/paris-agreement])
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Explain that renewables have downsides
 * o <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Talk about the energy needed to make the technology initially
 * Refer to the Attached document for downsides
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Explain that over works by concentrating suns energy into a small area and then holding it there to cook food
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Show students the oven and tell them that while they are working on the activity the instructor will make them s’mores.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The goal of this activity is to make wind turbine blades that makes either the most LED’s light up, or if you are only using one LED then makes the LED light up the brightest.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Whoever wins gets an extra s’more
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Split into groups of 2-3 people randomly
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Place materials out on a table and let students choose how many blades they want and how they want the blades to look.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Make sure that they use the dowel so that it can be tested
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">While students are working give them s’mores as they finish cooking
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Allow students to come up and set their blades how their want.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Turn fan on and watch the LED’s
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Make sure students can see and appreciate their accomplishment
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Test everyone’s blades
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Give winning team their reward
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ask students what they learned.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wrap up by summarizing that main points
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There are many types of renewables
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Renewable aren’t perfect
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Renewable are Cool ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Parent/Guardian Follow Up: ** |||||||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Parent/ Guardian,

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