REGISTER! Sixth Grade Program: Electricity and Climate Change
This program consists of two classroom visits to explore the connection between the electricity we rely on to power our world and Earth's rapidly changing climate.
Lesson 1 (60-minutes) will introduce students to the problem of climate change and get students thinking about how the electricity we all use everyday is connected to our rapidly changing climate. The presentation will include videos, discussion, hands-on activities with coal, hand-crank generators, solar and wind power, and the use of pie graphs comparing energy sources in California and the US.
Lesson 2 (90-minutes) in this STEM renewable energy workshop, students work in groups to design, construct, and test wind blades on small generators to create electricity using wind power.