Energy, Environment, and Health

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.07.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Classroom and School Environment
  3. Rational
  4. Objectives
  5. Strategies for future Energy
  6. Appendix 1 Annotated Bibliography
  7. Appendix 2 IB Objectives
  8. Appendix 3 Student Handouts and Diagrams
  9. Endnotes

Energy for the Future, Superheroes Need Not Apply

Debra Blake Semmler

Published September 2012

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Classroom and School Environment

I teach at an urban, partial magnet high school with a total population of roughly 1800 students, with approximately 750 students who are part of the International Baccalaureate (IB) magnet. The school is comprised of approximately 52 % Africans American, 25 % white, 16% Hispanics and 6 % Asian. More than 50% of the student population is on free and reduced lunch. I will be using the curriculum unit in my IB physics III class; the students in this course are on their third class in physics, having completed an honors-level physics class as sophomores and as seniors they have completed science course in biology, earth and environmental science and normally chemistry. The IB physics course is a college level physics curriculum divided over two years that includes a minimum of 40 hours of experimental work.

Comments:

Christina C Forbes

January 2, 2016 at 10:14 pm

This post needs serious editing

The content is fine. But the writing is poor. Typos, bad grammar, failures of clarity abound. Not a good platform for public school children to learn from. A good editor who knows something about energy terminology is needed, quickly. For example, the text confuses kilowatts and kilowatt hours. Examples need to be crystal clear. The writing is not up to Yale standards (I am a Yale Law School graduate). Happy new year, Christina Forbes Alexandria, Va.

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