Energy & Engineering for Middle School Students

 

Energy production and consumption and the impact those activities have on the environment are among the most critical long term issues facing the United States at the beginning of the twenty first century. In this workshop, middle school science and technology education teachers will explore the key scientific and technological concepts needed to understand energy.

The workshop will consist of two days of hands-on activities which will bolster teachers’ understanding of energy and provide them with research-based classroom activities and materials to help plant the seeds for creative solutions to our energy needs in the next generation of scientists, engineers and energy consumers.  

Day 1: Structured discussions and small-group, hands-on laboratory activities in the Stevens Department of Physics to build teachers’ understanding of and confidence in teaching energy topics.

Day 2: Putting their understanding into practice, teachers will construct a working wind turbine generator and receive a resource binder of lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations and other classroom activities suitable for teaching energy in the middle school.

NJCCCS Science Standards Addressed: 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.7, 5.10

NJCCCS Technology Education Standards Addressed: 8.2A, B, C