Green Education Network

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Teacher Resources
Green Energy Technologies Unit Plans for use in after school programs. Each unit plan contains:
A 12 week authentic investigation around a driving question that covers core ideas and practices in science, engineering and IT
Individual lessons plans & student activity sheets
Recommendations for & examples of cybertools youth can create to educate others!

We take the science and the action to you!

• Resources  • Activities  •Ideas!

Downloadable Units:

Conservation & Efficiency

Energy Crisis! An investigation into electrical production and consumption; and how these are impacted by policies and practices

Complete Streets: An investigation into modes of transportation in the city using GIS to map access & impact of complete streets

LEED-certified building design: An nvestigation how and why a new green roof supports environmental sustainability, and the design-based decisions that support such work. Synthesizes ideas across energy conversation and efficiency.


Alternative Energy

Powering the City! An investigation into alternative energies through the design of a hybrid power plant.

Cars of the Future: An investigation into the design of  alternatively powered vehicles and their environmental impacts

Designing Fuel cell cars: An investigation how engineers leverage cutting edge research in fuel cells to design new environmentally friendly cars. Synthesizes ideas across alternative energy.

Other stuff to include:

  1. Downloadable: Science & IT Standards covered in units


  1. Youth Cybertools in support of each unit (link to youth created tools page)