The airplanes unit begins with a lesson on how airplanes create lift, which involves a discussion of air pressure and how wings use Bernoulli's principle to change air pressure. Next, students explore the other three forces acting on airplanes thrust, weight and drag. Following these lessons, students learn how airplanes are controlled and use paper airplanes to demonstrate these principles. The final lessons addresses societal and technological impacts that airplanes have had on our world. Students learn about different kinds of airplanes and then design and build their own balsa wood airplanes based on what they have learned.

In this lesson, students will first discuss where energy comes from, including sources such as fossil fuels, nuclear, and such renewable technologies as solar. After this initial exploration, students will investigate the three main types of heat transfer: convection, conduction, and radiation. Students will learn how properties describe the ways different materials behave, for instance whether they are insulators or conductors. Students will complete a crossword puzzle to reinforce their vocabulary in this content area. The class will then focus on the acquisition and storage of energy through the design, construction, and testing of a fully functional solar oven.

Ever wonder how a battery works? This segment highlights voltaic cells, their various components and how they operate.

Using three-dimensional scaffolds, these materials address the following topics:  - Atoms, elements, and molecules.- Properties of matter and energy. - Reasoning across systems and scale- Conservation of matter- Combustion as a rearrangement reaction- Chemical bondsEach packet is broken into five parts - data dive, core ideas, investigations, asssessments, and life connections. Formative assessments and checkpoints are embedded throughout each packet. The final packet prepares students for a summative assessment, with a provided practice assessment.Implementation instructions are embedded for each component of each packet. PDFs are included as attachments (in case the file formats are altered by this system). 

People use energy in all aspects of their lives for cooking, lighting and entertainment. Much of this energy use takes place in buildings, such as our homes. To save money and reduce the impact on our environment, many people are reducing their energy use. One way is to hire engineers to perform home energy audits to understand the ways we use energy and identify ways we can conserve energy. In this activity, students act as energy conservation engineers and identify the ways energy is conserved or wasted. They also learn many ways to personally conserve energy everyday.

This video is an introduction to the global issue of water. It examines questions like "How can there be a water shortage when we are surrounded by water?". This video is part of the Sustainability Learning Suites, made possible in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. See 'Learn more about this resource' for Learning Objectives and Activities.

This video looks at how water is provided for our use through the hydrologic cycle. It also explains how global climate change disturbs the storage of water in the various global compartments. This video is part of the Sustainability Learning Suites, made possible in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. See 'Learn more about this resource' for Learning Objectives and Activities.

How do we account for water use? What is the difference between water consumed and water withdrawn? What is the water footprint tool? This video examines these questions. This video is part of the Sustainability Learning Suites, made possible in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. See 'Learn more about this resource' for Learning Objectives and Activities.

This video looks at how water use and energy use are connected when industrial era technologies are used as the primary means of supplying process energy. This video is part of the Sustainability Learning Suites, made possible in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. See 'Learn more about this resource' for Learning Objectives and Activities.

This lab activity is an exploration of Newton's Three Laws, forces and energy. Students will design, build, launch and analyze rocket data.

Students observe a model waterwheel to investigate the transformations of energy involved in turning the blades of a hydro-turbine. Students work as engineers to create model waterwheels while considering resources such as time and materials, in their design. Students also discuss and explore the characteristics of hydropower plants.

This course is an overview of engineering approaches to protecting water quality with an emphasis on fundamental principals. Theory and conceptual design of systems for treating municipal wastewater and drinking water are discussed, as well as reactor theory, process kinetics, and models. Physical, chemical, and biological processes are presented, including sedimentation, filtration, biological treatment, disinfection, and sludge processing. Finally, there is discussion of engineered and natural processes for wastewater treatment.

Students learn the history of the waterwheel and common uses for water turbines today. They explore kinetic energy by creating their own experimental waterwheel from a two-liter plastic bottle. They investigate the transformations of energy involved in turning the blades of a hydro-turbine into work, and experiment with how weight affects the rotational rate of the waterwheel. Students also discuss and explore the characteristics of hydroelectric plants.

Students use watt meters to measure the power required and calculate energy used from various electrical devices and household appliances.

Students learn about the types of waves and how they change direction, as well as basic wave properties such as wavelength, frequency, amplitude and speed. During the presentation of lecture information on wave characteristics and properties, students take notes using a handout. Then they label wave parts on a worksheet diagram and draw their own waves with specified properties (crest, trough and wavelength). They also make observations about the waves they drew to determine which has the highest and the lowest frequency. With this knowledge, students better understand waves and are a step closer to understanding how humans see color.

2024 Recording of online educator webinar to share NEW lessons and ways of integrating Sketchbox building energy modeling tool into high school and technical college classrooms.

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SvXtj4KLadTjuOc9-6aTage8fH9WLaDfdpCIYnCjU9E/edit?usp=sharing

The recording has chapters corresponding the the lessons shared:
00:00:00 Introduction (Slides 1-10)
00:00:34 Objectives (Slides 11)
00:04:34 Overview of Sketchbox - Lesson 1 (Slides 12-28)
00:23:57 Curriculum Connections -Joe Phillips (Slides 29-31)
00:32:25 IREC Energy Careers Map tour (Slides 32-33)
00:34:30 DPI Energy Career Pathway (Slides 34-35)
00:35:46 About KEEP (Slides 36-38)
00:43:57 Clean Energy Career Videos (Slides 39)
00:44:07 Sketchbox model for Specific Buildings (Slides 41 - 54)
01:06:55 Support Features in Sketchbox (Slides 57)
01:08:16 Integrating Renewable Energy into Sketchbox - PVWatts (Slides 64)
01:12:17 Integrating Energy Efficiency into Sketchbox
01:17:46 Q&A with Slipstream (Slides 71-72)

Recording of online educator workshop to share lessons and ways of integrating Sketchbox building energy modeling tool into high school and technical college classrooms.

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1atba_GD-baOn4iHYnxGFdqXb3nKTDJiW5bwa9YCxbpw/edit?usp=sharing

The recording has chapters corresponding the the lessons shared:

00:00:00 Introduction to Sketchbox (Slides 13–17)
00:07:15 Navigating Sketchbox (Slides 18-24)
00:14:30 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗻𝗲 – Intro to Building Models (Slides 30-33)
00:40:28 Clean Energy Careers Resources (Slides 39-43)
00:45:19 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝘄𝗼 – Energy Codes and Measurements (Slides 44-57)
00:56:35 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 - Investigate building scheduling & Lesson Four: calculate carbon equivalent emissions avoided (Slides 71-77)
01:10:11 Q&A from chat
01:12:39 Sharing resources and Q&A with Slipstream Engineers (Slides 78-79)

Three short, hands-on, in-class demos expand students' understand of energy. First, using peanuts and heat, students see how the human body burns food to make energy. Then, students create paper snake mobiles to explore how heat energy can cause motion. Finally, students determine the effect that heat energy from the sun (or a lamp) has on temperature by placing pans of water in different locations.

Students learn about the definition of heat as a form of energy and how it exists in everyday life. They learn about the three types of heat transfer conduction, convection and radiation as well as the connection between heat and insulation. Their learning is aided by teacher-led class demonstrations on thermal energy and conduction. A PowerPoint® presentation and quiz are provided. This prepares students for the associated activity in which they experiment with and measure what they learned in the lesson by designing and testing insulated bottles.

That heat flows from hot to cold is an unavoidable truth of life. People have put a lot of effort into stopping this natural physical behavior, however all they have been able to do is slow the process. Student teams investigate the properties of insulators in their attempts to keep cups of water from freezing, and once frozen, to keep them from melting.