Lesson 6: Energy Transfers and Efficiency in Large-Scale Energy Generation

Overview

Students analyze the way they personally use energy and begin to examine energy use on a much larger scale. Students discover how reliant all sectors (residential, commercial, industrial, transportation) are on electricity and fossil fuels as energy sources. As they investigate the energy transfers involved in the generation of electricity, students consider the efficiency of the transfers involved in the process.

Key Ideas

Lesson Goals

Students will:

Lesson Resources

Download Lesson Plan (14 pages,664 KB)



Palmer Putnam Podcast



Pie Graph of Maine Energy Consumption by Sector 2007



Student Handout 6.1: Advance Organizer for Energy Consumption Article
(1 page, 396 KB)


Student Handout 6.2: Calculating the Efficiency of (Selected) Components of an Electrical Power Plant (2 pages, 492 KB)



Teacher Resource 6.1: PowerSleuth puzzle sets (without lines)



Teacher Resource 6.2: PowerSleuth puzzle descriptions
(2 pages, 1.1 MB)


Links

Connections to Maine Agencies

A Maine Energy Education Representative Program (MEEP) representative will come to interested schools, free of charge, to guide and support the concepts in this lesson.

For schools in Aroostook County, a Maine Public Service (MPS) representative will come to interested schools, free of charge, to guide and support the concepts developed in this lesson.

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