Lesson Description:
Students will be able to:

• understand that collectively, our daily routines can have a significant environmental and economic impact.
• identify several ways to reduce energy consumption in the home.
• analyze a set of data for possible energy wasting activities and use that information to design a solution that results in higher energy efficiency.
• present their solution to a problem in an organized and efficient manner.

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Lesson Type:

• Discussion
• Project

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Sustainability Topic:

• Energy
• Social Systems
• Waste Reduction

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GEF Program Category:

• Green Energy Challenge

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Standards Addressed:
Students will:
-use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
-develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence.
-think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations.
-recognize and analyze alternative explanations and predictions.
-communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
-different kinds of questions require different kinds of scientific investigations, including observing and describing, collecting, experimentation, research, discovery, and making models.
-current knowledge and understanding guide scientific investigations.
-technology enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results.
-scientific explanations emphasize evidence, have logical arguments, and use scientific principles, models, and
-scientific investigations sometimes result in new ideas and phenomena for study, generate new methods or procedures for an investigation, or develop new technologies to improve the collection of data.
-energy is a property of many substances and is associated with heat, light, electricity, mechanical motion, sound, nuclei, and the nature of a chemical.
-science influences society through its knowledge and world view. the effect of science on society is neither entirely beneficial nor entirely detrimental.

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Lesson Documents:
efficiency_energyinhome.pdf

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