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UTEP/EPISD Border Air Quality Education www.BAQed.utep.edu Grade 5 – Alternative Energies. Roxanne Ramos, Theresa Turner, Blanche Herrera, Amy Canales. Objectives. Introduce activities that allow students to experience generating electricity from alternative energy sources
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UTEP/EPISD Border Air Quality Educationwww.BAQed.utep.eduGrade 5 – Alternative Energies Roxanne Ramos, Theresa Turner, Blanche Herrera, Amy Canales
Objectives • Introduce activities that allow students to experience generating electricity from alternative energy sources • Develop a plan of action to reduce energy use at school in order to improve our border air quality TEKS Timeline 5.7(C) identify alternative energy resources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biofuels; • Wind – 2-3 class periods • Solar – 1 class period • Biofuel – 1 class period • Action Plan – 1 class period
Activity 1 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer Moving Windmills (6:07) http://youtu.be/arD374MFk4w
Activity 2 How Electricity is Made • Electricity is the flow of electrons • Michael Faraday • Magnet moving in a coil of wire causes electrons to line up and generate an electrical current
Activity 3 Energy from the Wind How to assemble wind lift video: http://teachergeek.com/products/teachergeek-wind-lift Printed instruction guide: http://www.teachergeek.org/wind_lift.pdf
Use wind to generate electricity Only generated about 5 milliamps.
Add gears to increase rotations 15-20 milliamps of electricity generated
Activity 4 Solar Cells Capture the Sun's Energy
10 minutes to find the best angle for the solar cell and the best 2 meter path to travel.
How much electricity can the solar panel generate at different angles? 12:35 pm facing south Angle Milliamps 0 5 20 7 40 3 60 0 Kids Do Science -- Solar Car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXcPFuAhvkk
Activity 5 The Basics of Biofuels: Corn Power • Corn is a natural resource that is renewable • Uses of corn
Ethanol from Corn video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsROhOMIYdU
Biomass Pollution Demonstration • Peanut Power (because of allergies, we don’t use peanuts, we use corn chips. http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/projects/peanut.html
Biomass Pollution Demonstration Corn Chip Corn Oil Ethanol • Solid • Fast burn • Lots of smoke • Burnt remains • Liquid • Slower burn • Smoke • No residue (except wick) • Liquid • Long burn • No smoke • No residue
Activity 6 Reducing Energy Use at Our School • Learning about energy use by the district and by campus • Making energy reduction posters • Sending energy announcements across the school’s PA system
How to find energy usage reports by campus • Check your district’s facilities website. Most districts have the energy consumption charted by school. • For EPISD, see the next slides
Log on to my episd main page Click here to get to the Energy Management page
District Energy Home Page Select the “Energy Mgmt.” tab
Click on “Energy Management Reports” to see the energy reports
Most recent month Last 4 years Individual years (including current year)
Electricity Usage Over Four Years Electricity Usage Over Four Years
Energy Saving Posters Students brainstorm ideas before using poster board