Florida Power and Light and NTC invite you to use these e-learning resources to teach your students about the importance of energy efficiency and conservation. The digital materials below are designed to get your students excited about understanding this important subject.
Want to know the best way to use the related e-book, videos, games and other lessons to educate your class? Watch this short video and learn how to add Energy Endgame to your curriculum!
We know your class time is extremely valuable. That’s why we ensure that all of our digital e-learning materials are aligned with state and national educational standards. It’s important that the Energy Endgame digital program adds to your existing curriculum and keeps students on track with their ongoing learning.
See below for details about how each digital activity aligns with educational standards and corresponds with your state’s curricula.
Energy Endgame is performed by two professional actors who lead your students through an action-packed, hi-tech adventure, all while teaching about energy conservation and resources.
In this 25-minute play, GameCo’s top designer whiz, Hieronyma Tru, has created a cool new video game that’s supposed to come out today … but there’s one small glitch. The company computers aren’t working, all the lights are off – and nobody can figure out why! The irksome Internet Troll may be to blame. Can your students help Hieronyma venture into the grid and resolve the technical difficulties?
The show focus on the following educational points:
Your students will experience important lessons about energy efficiency.
Your students can enhance what they learn from the program with these fun, hands-on lessons and experiments. These lessons can be done in the classroom or easily adapted for students to do at home with their families.
They’re a fun and educational way for students to learn with family members. The materials needed for these lessons are basic supplies that most people have at home. Follow up with your students to make sure they enjoyed and learned from these activities.
Lesson 1:
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Lesson 2:
Follow-up, formative assessments for you to gauge the learning of your students are especially important with e-learning. Below are some suggestions for how you can assess your students’ performance quickly and effectively.
These assessments are easy for you and your students to complete and help ensure your class is getting the maximum educational value, retention and engagement from the related digital activities.
| Elementary Educational Assessments | Livestream | Hands-on lessons | Digital games | E-book | Graphic novel | Interactive activities | PDFs & Print materials |
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| Ask students to reflect on the topic and draw their thoughts on paper | X | X | X | ||||
| Write one or two sentences identifying the main point | X | X | X | X | |||
| Think-pair-share | X | X | X | ||||
| One-question quiz | X | X | |||||
| Journal reflection | X | X | X | ||||
| Have students discuss three things they learned, two things they still want to learn, and one question they still have | X | X | X | ||||
| Hand in completed activity | X | X | |||||
| Submit screenshot of completed activity | X | X |
The Energy Endgame student activities page features games, e-books, videos, educational lessons, downloadable PDFs, a smart speaker app and more. Access in the classroom or at home to learn more about energy efficiency and have fun exploring Energy Endgame!
Explore the Energy Endgame student playbook for fun games, additional lessons and expanded information specific to your area. The playbook features characters and story elements from Energy Endgame livestream show that students will recognize.
Flip through this colorful, illustrated e-book with your class or friends and family. This illustrated e-book offers expanded lessons about energy and conservation with entertaining characters and additional activities. Students can read to themselves or with others, and younger students can use the read-along option.
Flip through this colorful graphic novel for a new and engaging story. With fun artwork, entertaining characters and expanded information, the Electrana graphic novel offers a page-turning experience.
We take your feedback and suggestions very seriously. Hearing from educators with firsthand experience with our programs ensures that we continue to improve our digital resources, making them as beneficial as possible for you and your students.
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You’ve covered the basics of energy and conservation. If you really want to dig deep with your class, explore the expanded information and additional resources below.
These materials provide even more insight into the history, science, usage and importance of energy. There are also helpful links and tips for saving energy in your community.
Expanded Information 1:
Switching to all-electric appliances, heating and transportation is an important step toward a cleaner and more sustainable future. When combined with the use of renewable resources, such as solar and wind power, the benefits are even greater.
Electric appliances, heating and transportation have many benefits for the environment. They are much more energy-efficient than their gas-powered counterparts, which means that they use less energy to do the same job.
However, relying on electric power alone can still have an impact on the environment. That’s why it’s important to also switch to renewable resources such as solar and wind power. These sources of energy are much cleaner and more sustainable than traditional sources like coal and oil. They produce zero emissions and have a minimal impact on the environment.
Renewable energy is also becoming more affordable, which makes it a more viable option for many households and businesses. This means that more people than ever before can switch to renewable energy and make a positive impact on the environment.
Switching to all-electric appliances and heating is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint. Electric heating systems are much more efficient than gas heating systems. This can lead to significant savings on your energy bills over time.
Electric cars produce zero emissions, which means that they do not contribute to air pollution or climate change. This is a big contrast to gas-powered cars, which produce a lot of harmful emissions that contribute to global warming.
When combined with the use of renewable resources, the benefits of electrification are even greater. By relying on electric power and renewable resources, we can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, cut our carbon footprint and make our world a better place for future generations.
Expanded Information 2:
The surface of the Sun has a temperature of about 5,800 Kelvin (about 5,500 degrees Celsius, or about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit). At that temperature, most of the energy the Sun radiates is visible and near-infrared light. At Earth’s average distance from the Sun (about 150 million kilometers), the average intensity of solar energy reaching the top of the atmosphere directly facing the Sun is about 1,360 watts per square meter, according to measurements made by the most recent NASA satellite missions. This amount of power is known as the total solar irradiance.
A watt is a measurement of power, or the amount of energy that something generates or uses over time. How much power is 1,360 watts? An incandescent lightbulb uses anywhere from 40 to 100 watts. A microwave uses about 1,000 watts. If, for just one hour, you could capture and re-use all the solar energy arriving over a single square meter at the top of the atmosphere directly facing the Sun, you would have enough to run a refrigerator all day.
The total solar irradiance is the maximum possible power that the Sun can deliver to a planet at Earth’s average distance from the Sun; basic geometry limits the actual solar energy intercepted by Earth. Only half the Earth is ever lit by the Sun at one time, which halves the total solar irradiance.
In addition, the total solar irradiance is the maximum power the Sun can deliver to a surface that is perpendicular to the path of incoming light. Because the Earth is a sphere, only areas near the equator at midday come close to being perpendicular to the path of incoming light. Everywhere else, the light comes in at an angle. The progressive decrease in the angle of solar illumination with increasing latitude reduces the average solar irradiance by an additional one-half.
Averaged over the entire planet, the amount of sunlight arriving at the top of Earth’s atmosphere is only one-fourth of the total solar irradiance, or approximately 340 watts per square meter.
Source: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/EnergyBalance/page2.php
