# Presentation: 922300

## Energy Transfer and the Building Envelope

- Department of Energy
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- Energy Division
- Buildings Technology Center
- Kerry Hake

- (Speaker notes are included in this presentation)

**Notes:**
On behalf of the Buildings Technology Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Department of Energy, I would like to thank the Department of Education for their grant and take this opportunity to briefly explain our Internet Training Module.

## Energy TransferBuilding and Testing a Straw Bale Wall

- Agencies
- Goals
- History
- Teachers
- Development
- Community
- Contacts

**Notes:**
I would like to introduce you to what agencies are involved our project goals, our history with education, teacher involvement, module development, how we envision student/teacher collaboration, and how you can contact us.

## Energy Transfer:  Agencies

**DOE** - Department of Energy
- Cindy Musick, Sue Ellen Walbridge
**ORNL** - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
** ****OUSE**** - Office of University and Science Education**
- Linda Cain and Barbara Summers
** ****ED** **- Energy Division**
**BTC** - **Buildings Technology Center**
- Jeff Christian and Kerry Hake
**ARC** - Appalachian Regional Commission
- Bill Brown

**Notes:**
The Energy Transfer module will be developed by the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The researchers are based in the Buildings Technology Center with oversight by the Office of University and Science Education in cooperation with teachers from the Appalachian Regional Commission.  

## Energy Transfer: Module Goals

- Transmit concepts of thermal transfer to 6-8th grade students.
-  Conduction, Convection, Reflection
- Engage students in the scientific process:
-  Utilization of actual data by students & teachers
-  Interaction with practicing scientists

**Notes:**
Our module will use buildings technology research, namely testing for resistance to heat flow or the R-value in walls and ceilings. We believe this will have a broad appeal. The physics of conduction, convection, reflection and the contact with research scientists will engage college minded students and the concept of making a comfortable living space will attract others who are more interested in the industrial application of science.

## Energy Transfer: History

- Testing: Walls and roofs
- Education: Workshops, Multimedia, Web
- Collaboration: ARC, Adventures in Supercomputing
- WWW Event: Straw Bale Wall Construction
-  http://www.ornl.gov/roofs+walls/strawbalewall

**Notes:**
I would like to introduce you to three pieces of test equipment we will use. 

## Wall Testing Equipment

**Wall Testing Equipment**

**Notes:**
First is the rotatable guardable hotbox where full-scale walls are fitted with thermocouples and subjected to thermal testing until an equilibrium is reached.

## Roof Testing Equipment

**Notes:**
Second is a Climate simulator where entire roofs and small-scale buildings can be subjected to climates from the heat of  the Sonora desert to the chill of the Sierra Mountians.

## Roof Testing Equipment 

**Notes:**
Third is the roof materials testing facility where various roof coverings may experience long term elemental exposure.

## Energy Transfer: History

- Testing: Walls and roofs
- Education: Workshops, Multimedia, Web
- Collaboration: ARC, Adventures in Supercomputing
- WWW Event: Straw Bale Wall Construction
-  http://www.ornl.gov/roofs+walls/strawbalewall

**Notes:**
We have run numerous workshops, produced multimedia educational CDs, and hosted Web events. The Office of University and Science Education has run the Appalachian Regional Commission Summer Institute for K-12 teacher for 6 years as well as participating in the Department of Energy’s Adventures in Supercomputing and Science Bowl.
This February we produced a WWW event where we built and tested a straw bale wall live on the Internet.

## WWW Event 

- Click on small image to start video clip

- (Video only available with downloaded version)

**Notes:**
This February 15 second video clips compresses 1 hours of work from live Internet images broadcast every 15 seconds.  We held video conferences with K-12 students, moderated student chat rooms, and maintained a on-line BBS for student questions and answers.

## Energy Transfer: Teachers

- ARC Summer Institute
-  26 teachers
-  13 states
- Mixture of disciplines
-  Middle school
-  High school

**Notes:**
This Year we invited 26 teachers from 13 states representing a broad range of disciplines.

They start their summer institute today.

## Energy Transfer: Development

- Two weeks of idea generation
-  Multiple teachers at ORNL
- One week of module development
-  Group of 5 core teachers at ORNL
- Two months of refinement before piloting
-  Develop constructivist educational format
-  Market / advertise / solicit participation

**Notes:**
The teachers will work this week and the next with Buildings Technology Researchers to develop insights and concepts to include in the Energy Transfer module. The third week a select number of teachers will stay to actually piece together a rough draft prototype. In the following 8-10 weeks teachers from A.R.C. summer institute will collaborate over the internet to refine and produce an initial pilot.

## Energy Transfer: Development

- Instructional Leader (teacher)
-  Curriculum oversight
-  Coordinate development, deployment, and feedback
- Technical Leader (researcher)
-  Technology oversight
-  Facilitate use of appropriate technology

**Notes:**
We understand that 
content does not equal Curriculum and
technology does not guarantee success.

So we have enlisted the aid of a teacher to oversee the module development.  Bill Brown is taking a year off from teaching to further his education at the University of Tennessee and will serve as our Instructional Leader. I will guide him and the other teachers on technology issues.

## Energy Transfer: Community

- Maintain a core of ARC teachers
- Expand participation through teacher networking
-  Face-to-face meetings
-  Video conferencing
-  Chat room server
-  Electronic notebook

**Notes:**
The teacher-to-teacher and researcher-to-teacher collaboration begins today.  We hope to maintain the relationships started this week with the Appalachian Regional Commission teachers. As the project progress we will try several different Internet-based technologies to facilitate collaboration. When we field the pilots we expect the teachers to pass along some of their Internet collaboration skills to the students.

## Agencies
Goals
History
Teachers
Development
Community
Contacts

- Agencies
- Goals
- History
- Teachers
- Development
- Community
- Contacts

**Notes:**
And that gives you a quick overview of what we are about and what we propose to do. The following screen has our contact information.

## Contactsstrawbalewall@ornl.govwww.ornl.gov/roofs+walls/strawbalewall

**DOE** - **Office of  Science Education**
-  **Cindy Musick -**** cindy.musick@oer.doe.gov**
** ****Sue Ellen Walbridge -**** sue-ellen.walbridge@oer.doe.gov**
**ORNL** - ** Office of University and Science Education**
** ****Linda Cain -** **9lc@ornl.gov**
** ****Barbara Summers -**** ****qgz@ornl.gov**
**ORNL** - **Buildings Technology Center**
-  **Jeff Christian -** **jef@ornl.gov**
-  **Kerry Hake -** **khk@ornl.gov**
**ARC - ORNL**
-  **Bill Brown -**** bcbrown@earthlink.net**

## Slide 17

**Notes:**
This presentation has been cleared for presentation by ORNL.