Energy: Past, Present, and Future

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 24.04.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Content Objectives: Energy Transitions and their Consequences
  2. Rationale and Teaching Strategies
  3. Classroom Activities
  4. Resources
  5. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  6. Notes
  7. Annotated Bibliography

Brainpower: Using Math and Science to Understand Five Moments in Energy History

Chloe Glynn

Published September 2024

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3 Yergin, Daniel. “The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power.” New York: Free Press (1991): 342.

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10 Conway, Ed, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization. First American edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

11 Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "energy." Encyclopedia Britannica, June 19, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/science/energy. Accessed July 14, 2024.

12 Greitzer, E. M., Z. S. Spakovszky, and I. A. Waitz. Entropy and Unavailable Energy (Lost Work by Another Name). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. https://web.mit.edu/16.unified/www/FALL/thermodynamics/notes/node49.html. Accessed July 14, 2024.

13 Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Joule heating." Encyclopedia Britannica, June 29, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/science/Joules-law. Accessed July 16, 2024.

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32 Goren-Inbar, Naama, Nira Alperson, Mordechai E. Kislev, Orit Simchoni, Yoel Melamed, Adi Ben-Nun, and Ella Werker. “Evidence of Hominin Control of Fire at Gesher Benot Ya`aqov, Israel.” Science 304, no. 5671 (April 30, 2004): 725–27. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1095443.

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39 BYJUs. “Heat Capacity Formula - Definition, Formula and Solved Examples.” BYJUS, September 14, 2020. https://byjus.com/heat-capacity-formula/. Accessed July 29, 2024.

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44 Minnesota Municipal Power Agency. Swept Area [PDF]. 2024. https://www.mmpa.org/energy-education/teaching-tools-for-educators/. Accessed July 16, 2024.

45 De Decker, Kris. Wind Powered Factories: History and Future of Industrial Wind Mills. Low Tech Magazine. October 8, 2009. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/10/wind-powered-factories-history-and-future-of-industrial-windmills/. Accessed July 16, 2024.

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58 Crosby, Alfred. 2006. Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. New York: W. W. Norton.

59 Armenta, Adelina. Fossil Fuel Formation Complete. YouTube video, 2013, 9:09, March 27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvH-h7TzSsE. Accessed July 14, 2024.

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75 Chancel & Piketty, 3051

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95 Yergin, 12

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97 Miller, Ian Jared, Paul Warde, Ariane Tanner, J. R. McNeill, Victor Seow, Conevery Bolton Valencius, and Robert D. Lifset. “Forum: The Environmental History of Energy Transitions.” Environmental History 24, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 469. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emz006.

98 Gross and Needham, 8.

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