Energy Sciences

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.04.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Content Background
  5. Fossil Fuels and Energy Use
  6. Renewable Energy
  7. Solar
  8. Wind
  9. Hydroelectric
  10. Geothermal
  11. Strategies
  12. Activities
  13. Endnotes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Teacher Resources
  16. Appendix

My Future, My Home: Building a Greener House for Tomorrow

Melissa Duran

Published September 2019

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Bibliography

"About Wind." Wind Solar Alliance. Accessed July 13, 2019. https://windsolaralliance.org/wind.

Archer, David. The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2016.

A book that scientifically and persuasively offers a detailed glimpse ahead in time far beyond most current climate change prediction models.

"Arctic Sea Ice Minimum." NASA. Accessed June 24, 2019. https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/.

Armaroli, Nicola, and Vincenzo Balzani. Energy for a Sustainable World: From the Oil Age to a Sun-powered Future. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH, 2011.

A balanced, scientific survey of contemporary energy issues.

Brudvig, Gary. Energy Sciences lecture, Yale University, July 12, 2019.

"California's Solar Energy Overload." IER. July 10, 2017. Accessed July 11, 2019. http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/solar/californias-solar-energy-overload.

Cleveland, Cutler J. Cleveland, and Christopher G. Morris. Handbook of Energy, Volume II: Chronologies, Top Ten Lists, and Word Clouds. Burlington: Elsevier, 2014, Pages 203-307.

"Evidence." NASA. Accessed July 12, 2019. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/.

A website tracking global climate change with a wealth of research driven data.

"Fossil." Energy.gov. Accessed July 10, 2019. http://www.energy.gov/science-innovation/energy-sources/fossil.

Koch, Wendy. "Wind Turbines Kill Fewer Birds than Do Cats, Cell Towers." USA Today. September 15, 2014. Accessed July 13, 2019. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/15/wind-turbines-kill-fewer-birds-than-cell-towers-cats/15683843/.

MacKay, David J. C. Sustainable Energy - without the Hot Air. Cambridge: UIT Cambridge, 2013.

A resource for facts about the usage and production of energy.

Press, Associated. "Last Year's Wildfires Were the Most Expensive in California History." The Guardian. May 08, 2019. Accessed June 24, 2019. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/08/california-2018-wildfires-most-expensive.

Rahmstorf, Stefan. "Thermohaline Circulation: The Current Climate." Nature 421, no. 6924 (2003): 699. doi:10.1038/421699a.

Rosa, Aldo Da. "Wind Energy." Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes, 2013, 685-763. doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-397219-4.00015-1.

Samenow, Jason. "Planet Is Entering 'new Climate Regime' with 'extraordinary' Heat Waves Intensified by Global Warming, Study Says." The Washington Post. June 11, 2019. Accessed June 24, 2019.

Samenow, Jason. "Temperatures Leap 40 Degrees above Normal as the Arctic Ocean and Greenland Ice Sheet See Record June Melting." The Washington Post. June 14, 2019. Accessed June 24, 2019.

"San Jose Unified School District." Ed. Accessed July 8, 2019. http://www.ed-data.org/district/Santa-Clara/San-Jose-Unified.

School demographics can be found on this site.

Santa Clara County Office of Education for the California Department of Education, Hoover Middle School.  “School Accountability Report Card. Accessed July 8, 2019. www.sarconline.org/SarcPdfs/Temp/43696666062111.pdf.

School demographics and test score data can be found on this site.

Service, Robert. "Giant Batteries and Cheap Solar Power Are Shoving Fossil Fuels off the Grid." Science, 2019. doi:10.1126/science.aay7094.

Silver, Jerry. Global Warming and Climate Change Demystified. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.

An easy to understand book on global warming and climate change.

"Solar Thermal." Solar Thermal | Student Energy. Accessed July 11, 2019. http://www.studentenergy.org/topics/solar-thermal.

A nice resource with definitions and video explanation on energy topics.

Team, ESRL Web. "NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division - THE NOAA ANNUAL GREENHOUSE GAS INDEX (AGGI)." NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory. October 01, 2005. Accessed July 14, 2019. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/aggi.html.

"U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis." Today in Energy - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Accessed July 12, 2019. http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy.

"Use of Geothermal Energy." Use of Geothermal Energy - Energy Explained, Your Guide To Understanding Energy - Energy Information Administration. Accessed July 12, 2019. http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=geothermal_use.

Vogel, M.m., J. Zscheischler, R. Wartenburger, D. Dee, and S.i. Seneviratne. "Concurrent 2018 Hot Extremes across Northern Hemisphere Due to Human‐induced Climate Change." Earth’s Future, 2019. doi:10.1029/2019ef001189.

“Where Greenhouse Gases Come From.” Where Greenhouse Gases Come From - Energy Explained, Your Guide to Understanding Energy – Energy Information Administration. Accessed July 27, 2019. http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=environment_where_ghg_come_from.

“Why Volcanoes Are Not Driving Climate Change.” Why Volcanoes Are Not Driving Climate Change - Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. January 18, 2019.  Accessed July 27, 2019. http://www.caryinstitute.org/discover-eclogy/podcasts/why-volcanoes-are-not-driving-climate-change.

Yergin, Daniel. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. New York: Penguin, 2012.

A comprehensive history of the evolution of the energy industry.

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