Clean Energy Topic: Energy Justice

  • Renewable City

    Renewable City

    This Renewable City Unit aims to help students dive in and actively explore sustainability, renewable resources, and how they might personally help solve our climate change problem. As students use multiple methods for investigating, creating, and thinking about these critical issues, they will be encouraged to develop pliable minds and action-oriented skills to address climate…

  • Community Project

    Community Project

    Students decide on a community project they’d like to do to personally help with climate change or energy justice.

  • Clean Water Power: Wind, Waves, and Moving Water

    Clean Water Power: Wind, Waves, and Moving Water

    This unit strives to answer the question: “How can the power of moving help communities by generating electricity?” Through a variety of lessons centered on the phenomena of the power of moving water, students will develop skills in circuits, model building, and testing. Students will explore issues surrounding clean water, energy, and careers.

  • Social, Emotional, and Equity Discussions in Clean Water Power

    Social, Emotional, and Equity Discussions in Clean Water Power

    This lesson has students jigsaw a bank of readings on the social, environmental, and equity issues with clean water power in order to make sense of how water power impacts the environment and people. Additionally, students will explore energy sovereignty and tribal energy independence in the Pacific Northwest to learn about how hydropower has impacted…

  • Methane to Music

    Methane to Music

    Students explore the phenomena of a Ruben’s Tube powered by renewable gas to understand how humans impact the flow of carbon in earth’s atmosphere. The lessons include topics of decomposers in a food web, compost, municipal waste, the and the carbon cycle.

  • Energy Justice and Renewable Fuels

    Energy Justice and Renewable Fuels

    Students will consider all the types of residences in their community. They are challenged to address these questions: “Can all people in this community, regardless of their home type access renewable energy if they want to?” “What are some of the barriers?” Utilizing MuddWatt kits as a power cell students will continue to explore access…

  • Designing a Sustainable City of the Future

    Designing a Sustainable City of the Future

    The concept for this unit is to teach students about natural resources and renewable energy in the context of how these things impact people, communities, and the environment. They will study the actions of current and past environmental activists, learn to look critically at current energy systems, and possible solutions. The final outcome of the…

  • Designing a City That Addresses Energy Needs

    Designing a City That Addresses Energy Needs

    Students work collaboratively to design a sustainable city of the future with attention to water, energy, carbon footprint, waste, and city layout needs.

  • Who Is An Activist?

    Who Is An Activist?

    This lesson introduces students to youth environmental activists involved in the work in creating an awareness about climate change issues. Students will begin to consider how they can use critical thinking to identify issues and their voice to address issues in their communities.