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Powering Smallsburg
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | Burkholder, Frank Zarske, Malinda Schaefer Yowell, Janet |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Description | Students act as power engineers by specifying the power plants to build for a community. They are given a budget, an expected power demand from the community, and different power plant options with corresponding environmental effects. Students act as engineers by specifying the power plants to build for a community. They are given a budget, an expected power demand from the community, and different power plant options with corresponding environmental effects. Guided by a worksheet, teams work through the hypothetical real-world scenario to arrive at recommendations that they present to the class; group "answers" vary widely, depending on their identified city priorities. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado |
| Subject Keyword | Earth and Space Electrical Power Generation Renewable Energy Electricity Generation Non-renewable Energy City Planning Electricity Power Plant Power Demand |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT45M |
| Education Level | Class III Class IV Class V |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Structure of the Earth |