Exploring Energy

Exploring Energy: A teacher's resource specifically aimed at Junior Certificate Science teachers but also useful for CSPE, Geography & TY teachers.  This book has lots of practical investigations, activities and action projects aimed at bringing the topic of sustainable energy into the classroom.Order your copy of the book or have a look online and print off 1 or 2 investigations.

• Contents; (PDF, 46KB)  
• Chapter 1 - Food & Energy
  • Energy in All of Us; (PDF, 161KB)
  • Food Power ; (PDF, 235KB)
• Chapter 2 - Plants, Humans & Energy
  • Hot house; (PDF, 201KB)
  • How clean is the air you breathe ; (PDF, 231KB)
  • Rising tides & Climate change; (PDF, 228KB)
  • Sun loving plants; (PDF, 129KB)
• Chapter 3 - Fossil Fuels & Acid Rain
  • A fossil fuel story; (PDF, 225KB)
  • Acid Attack; (PDF, 237KB)
  • Do-it-yourself acid rain; (PDF, 72KB)
  • Piles of packaging; (PDF, 174KB)
  • The life of plastic; (PDF, 105KB)    
• Chapter 4 - Renewable Sources of Energy
  • Our sun - the primary source of energy ; (PDF, 231KB)
  • Solar Energy ; (PDF, 176KB)
  • Water Power ; (PDF, 126KB)
  • Wind energy - Make a wind sock ; (PDF, 85KB)
  • Wind energy - Make your own anemometer; (PDF, 159KB)    
• Chapter 5 - Forms of Energy: Heat, Sound & Electricity
  • Best cup of tea; (PDF, 166KB)
  • Bouncing Balls; (PDF, 113KB) 
  • Music to your ears; (PDF, 236KB)
  • Pulling paperclips; (PDF, 152KB)
  • Spiralling snakes; (PDF, 69KB)  
• Chapter 6 - Saving Energy: Action in School
  • On the move ; (PDF, 212KB)
  • Over to you ; (PDF, 255KB) 

Appendices

• Appendix 1 A Fossil Fuel Story; (PDF, 88KB)
• Appendix 2 Our Sun; (PDF, 52KB)
• Appendix 3 Bouncing Balls; (PDF, 60KB)
• Appendix 4 On the Move; (PDF, 52KB)
• Appendix 5 Over to You; (PDF, 112KB)