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. Students are shown bar graphs displaying the relative oil supply and relative oil consumption of each continent. Students analyze this data, consider what might be the effects of running out of fossil fuels, and suggest conservation strategies. Diagrams show how negative electrical charges jump from hand to knob as the two come together.