Powering Our Future: What Is "Green Power"?

7.5 Professional Development Hours
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
September 27, 2008 – East Valley
Designed for teachers in grades 3-12

With the world's ever-increasing thirst for energy, will it be possible to meet energy demands in the not-too-distant future? With dwindling supplies of fossil fuels, what will be the source of that energy? Powering Our Future is SRP's comprehensive, interactive resource for teachers that includes complete lesson plans, extensive background information, and fun ways to involve students in their energy future. Leave this experience with increased knowledge and skills to add "power" to your classroom!

Outcomes and Indicators

By participating in this workshop, you will:

• Understand the potential for renewable energy by identifying renewable energy sources.
• Recognize the desire for a more sustainable energy future by comparing non-renewable energy sources and their implications with renewable energy.
• Identify classroom application of new knowledge by exploring various approaches for incorporating renewable energy concepts and big ideas into classroom instruction and by using technology to enhance renewable energy education.
• Understand the complexity of energy demand vs. energy supply by examining the energy "grid" for the USA and Arizona.
• Explore diverse career opportunities in the field of energy by participating in cooperative learning activities.
• Learn how to effectively incorporate Powering Our Future into your instructional program using research-based practices.

Content Focus: Renewable energy, energy conservation, renewable energy technologies, energy delivery systems, careers

Research-Based Practices Modeled and/or Targeted: Differentiated Practices (Tomlinson), Classroom Instruction That Works (Marzano), Cooperative Learning (Kagan & Slavin), Brain-Based Learning (Wolfe & Jensen)

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