The Application Explosion

 

Topics:  Energy Crisis, Energy Consumption

 

Source:  The Alliance to Save Energy

 

Web address: http://www.ase.org/uploaded_files/educatorlessonplans/wasting.pdf

 

Grade Levels:  5-9

 

Learning Strategies:  Conducting a survey, data collection, data analysis

 

Frameworks Connections:

Science and Technology/Engineering

• Physical Sciences, Grades 3-5

  Forms of Energy

• Technology/Engineering, Grades 6

  4. Manufacturing Technologies

Mathematics, Grades 5-6, 7-8

• Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

 

Cost:  Free

Description: In conducting a home energy survey, students will learn about the energy crisis our world is in, how we are affected by it, and what we can do to change energy consumption in the home. 

Students will collect data of their own uses of appliances and an adult’s use of similar appliances when they were the student’s age.As a class, the students will create a graph to compare the use of appliances now with the use of appliances duirng an earlier time period (exemplified by the data of the adults), and they can then conclude about the need for increased conservation in the home. 

There is a complete section for both students and teachers, that include worksheets with step-by-step guides, as well as diagrams, and charts to help complete the assignments in each part of the activity. 

The survey can help to foster communication between the school and the home, which is a strong and beneficial connection.