Additional grade level book titles that also support this topic have been listed to meet the instructional needs of all students. If you are online, click on the blue underlined titles to connect to the described Internet sites. When the site's homepage appears, use it to locate the desired information. Contact your school-based technology specialist for assistance. The Energy Story Information on many forms of energy including geothermal, hydro, nuclear, solar, and wind.
Students think about their dependence on electricity and other forms of energy.
They record their own ideas about how electrical energy is produced and brought to where it is used. Then they view a video of an electrical power plant. Students investigate the depletion of nonrenewable resources. The scene is a world map with continents and some regions identified. A video depicts the formation of oil and shows why it is nonrenewable.