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Electric Vehicles

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Learning Goals
  1. Students will learn to use data to solve a variety of problems.
  2. Students will make connections between how far a car can travel and how much energy it has been given.
  3. Students will consider the impact of different modes of transportation on the environment.
Materials List

Handouts

Classroom Supplies

  • Scissors
  • Optional: Interactive Smartboard to play games on the Pod

Important Links

This lesson appears as a part of the following:
– Clean Transportation Implementation Toolkit

This is a teacher recommended lesson by the Pod and EDF Energy

This lesson from EDF Energy teaches students about the energy needed to move objects and, in particular, how cars get their energy to travel. Students take part
in a problem-solving exercise about charging an electric car, which also aims to spark a debate about the different ways cars can be fueled.

 

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