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Week 3 Session
STEM: Energy Basics
Week 3 Curriculum
Welcome to Week 3 of the CoT Program. This page contains the program curriculum for the Week 3 session.
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Objectives: The objectives of this session are to:
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Provide a basic understanding of energy and its properties.
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Explore the difference between non-renewable (fossil fuels coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear fuel) and renewable (renewables, hydrogen, wind, water, solar, clean, and electric, biomass).
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Explore how different transportation modes use energy.
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Describe energy in the context of global climate change, transportation, and STEM and how we make decisions about energy, and the society-wide impacts of energy use related climate change.
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Participate in a hands-on energy activity or experiment.
Week 3 Resources
Week 3 Facilitator Handbook Excerpt: Here
Energy Scavenger Hunt Worksheet: Here
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Teen Registration: https://bit.ly/cotregistration.
Center of Transformation
BGCGW CoT
Introduction Video
Renewable and Non-renewable Energy
Learning Video
Exercise
Energy Virtual Scavenger Hunt Competition
Exercise or Activity
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Teen Members:
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Download and/or print the Energy Scavenger Hunt Worksheet
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When the CoT Facilitator signs to start, teens will work individually to complete the Energy Scavenger Hunt Worksheet by finding the items listed on the worksheet.
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Teen Members will email or hand-in their Energy Scavenger Hunt Worksheets to their CoT Facilitator for verification of winners.
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Check with your CoT Facilitator for her email address to send your Energy Scavenger Hunt Worksheet to.
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CoT Facilitators:
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CoT Facilitators will be provided a Energy Scavenger Hunt Answer Sheet to help them determine examples of scavenger hunt correct objects.
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CoT Facilitators will note the order of receiving the teen members' Energy Scavenger Hunt Worksheet to determine who completed the scavenger hunt first and had the most correct items found.
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Note: Facilitators must provide their email addresses or collect the worksheets to determine the top two winners.
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The top two members in each group who find the most correct scavenger hunt items the fast will objects win a prize.
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Facilitators will verify the winners and email the names of the top two winners for each club or organization to: Cot@bgcgw.org.
Wrap-up
1. Session Debrief Questions:
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What are examples of renewable energy sources?
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What are examples of non-renewable energy sources?
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Is there one source of energy that is better than the others?
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How does energy sources affect climate change?
2. Teens:
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Submit Energy Scavenger Hunt Worksheets and top two teen winner names to CoT Facilitator at: cot@bgcgw.org.
4. Facilitator:
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Provide an Overview of Week 4.
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Record attendance for Week 3.