Dear Energy Ant:
Teacher: “Oh NO! I’ve got to teach something I know just a little about and need a quick resource. Isn’t there some website that can help?”
Energy Ant: “Yes, there are free resources here in the Kids Zone, organized by age-grade and subject matter, on all kinds of aspects of energy and science. Lesson plans can be selected by following a variety of paths, depending on how you think.”
What Every Teacher Should Know
Teachers face a wide set of problems, one of which is to find good age-grade and subject matter resources for “energy”. Or they want to point the student along a particular path of learning. Or they want to do a “quick-learn” on an unfamiliar topic so the subject can be taught in the immediate future – with confidence and ease. Let’s see if the following helps?
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Energy in the Classroom - Correlation of National Energy Education Development (NEED) Materials to the Learning Standards and Grade Level Expectations by State for Science
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- Lesson Plans
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For Grades 1 - 5
For Grades 6 - 8
Through the 12th Grade and Beyond
DOE Laboratories have on-site student science programs, teacher training courses, and laboratories.
DOE Offices have grants and sites that share their knowledge. Check them out!
Other DOE Education Sites
DOE Laboratories, Educational Programs: Minority Outreach Initiatives
Expanding Your Horizons Conference
Young Women - 6th through 8th grades.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Colorado +
Expanding Your Horizons Consortium
Young Women - 6th through 12th grades.
Livermore National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: San Francisco Bay Area
Dream Catcher Science Program
Native American Indian.
Sandia National Laboratories -- NM
Geographic Limits: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Manos Hands-on Science and Engineering Program
Hispanic middle school students
Sandia National Laboratories -- NM
Geographic Limits: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hands-On Minds-On Technologies
(HmTech Science Program)
African American Students - 6th through 12th grades.
Sandia National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Near Sandia National Laboratory
Expanding Your Horizons Consortium
Young Women - 6th through 12th grades.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: San Francisco Bay Area
Minority High School Apprenticeship Program (MHSAP)
Research Apprenticeships to 9th/10th grade students: African Ancestored, Hispanic/Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Suffolk County and Inner City Outreach Schools, NY
Affirmative Action & Diversity Program
Coordination with Professional organizations
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: San Francisco Bay Area
DOE Renewable Energy and Environmental Protection (REEP) Summer Academy
Minority and inner city youth
Geographic Limits: Texas, Louisiana, and Colorado
Colorado Mathematics, Engineering and Scientific Achievement (MESA)
Economically disadvantaged ethnic minority and women
Geographic Limits: Colorado
Student Research Apprenticeship Program (SRAP)
Ethnic groups under-represented in science and engineering (Hispanic, African American and Native American)
Pacific Northwest Laboratories
Geographic Limits: Richland, Washington
Young Women in Science Program
Young Women - 11th Grade High School Students
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Near Richland, Washington
Hands-On Minds-On Technologies (HmTech Science Program)
African American Students - 6th through 12th grades.
Sandia National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Near Sandia National Laboratory
Native American Faculty and Student Internship Program
Native American Undergraduates
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Geographic Limits: From tribes currently engaged in one of the Department of Energy's programs
Additional information is available at the EIA Kids Page.
