Americans spend 500 billion dollars each year on energy. As populations and appetites increase, the world faces a challenge of significantly growing energy needs. Many unique energy sources are available. To meet future energy needs, engineers need to design technology to contribute new ways to harness energy, increase efficiency, and better transport and store energy.
Objective:
Your task as a class is to prepare a presentation on the different energy sources we use collectively as a society (9 types from the graphic above). The class must cover each of the sources listed.
Presentation Grading (5 pts)
The presentation is worth 5 points. 4 points will be earned by each team and the remaining point will be awarded collectively to the class. If you address the content and process standards below, you will earn 4 points. If the class collectively addresses the process standards the 5th point will be awarded.
Product:
- Energy Source - Overview, Steps for Harnessing Energy, Major Energy Uses
- Is the energy source classified as nonrenewable, renewable, or inexhaustible?
- What are the infrastructure requirements for utilizing this energy source?
- What emerging technologies will make this energy source safer, more usable, more efficient, cleaner, etc?
- Consideration of Efficiency/Conservation
- Costs - Setup, Consumer Costs
- Pros/Cons
- Outlook for the future
Process:
- Unified look/theme to entire presentation
- Reduced Text - Use bullets and talk to them
- High Value Images - do they tell a story?
Blog Post Grading (2pts)
Post the images of your section of the "Energy Sources!" Presentation to your Blog. Copy and paste the following questions into your post after your slides and answer them.
1. Describe one thing that surprised you about the energy source that you researched and presented.
2. Describe one thing that surprised you about an energy source that another team presented.
3. Describe and defend what you believe to be the most important technological need regarding energy.
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