By the Numbers

Lesson Description:

This lesson, from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE), is a basic introduction to American energy dynamics. During the lesson, "students will learn basic dynamics and facts about the American energy economy..." Upon completing this lesson, students will understand the following:

• the primary sources of energy used today in the United States,
• how each source of energy is provided by nature,
• whether each source is nonrenewable or renewable,
• the percent of total energy use each source supplies, and
• the primary uses of each source of energy.

Lesson Contents:

Lesson materials include an instructor guide, a student response guide, three sets of presentation slides, and two documents about education standards. 

The instructor guide includes lesson objectives and teacher notes. The student response guide includes three sets of questions. Each set includes eight to twenty-five questions. The three sets of presentation slides cover the energy economy, non-renewable resources, and renewable resources. The other two documents include Next Generation High School Science Standards and Energy Literacy Principles and Concepts. 

For orientation purposes 508_by-the-number-instructor_s-guide.pdf is included as a separate attachment and offers a sample of the type of material included in this lesson. 

Below is a list of the files included in the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

By_the_Numbers (8 files, 10.6 MB)

• NGS Standards (508_ngsstandards-by-the-numbers.pdf 110 KB)
• EL Standards (508_elstandards-by-the-numbers.pdf 72 KB)
• Student Response Guide (508_by-the-numbers-student-response-guide.pdf 251 KB)
• Presentation 3 (508_by-the-numbers-iii-v8.0.pdf 4 MB)
• Presentation 2 (508_by-the-numbers-ii-v8.0.pdf 4.3 MB)
• Presentation 1 (508_by-the-numbers-i-v8.0.pdf 1.6 MB)
• Instructor Guide (508_by-the-number-instructor_s-guide.pdf 182 KB)