Unit 1: Energy Basics – Let’s Do Work!
Lab 1: Convection Current in a Cup
Lab 2: Beach Basics
Lab 3: What a Gas!
Lab 4: Shadow Shaper
Lab 5: Mirror Madness
Lab 6: Ramp it Up!
Lab 7: Pendulum Swinger
Lab 8: Slinky Sound Waves
Lab 9: Sound Stopper
Unit 2: Forms of Energy and Energy Transformations – Energy is
Always Changing
Lab 10: Just Bounce
Lab 11: Glowing Bright
Lab 12: Bubbling Up
Lab 13: Hot Hands
Lab 14: Black and White in the Light
Unit 3: Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Sources
Lab 15: Candy Collector
Lab 16: Chocolate Chip Extraction Competition
Lab 17: Getting the Oil Out
Lab 18: Perforated Perfection
Lab 19: Fracturing Gelatin
Lab 20: Uranium Miller
Lab 21: Wind Does Work
Lab 22: Geothermal Heater
Lab 23: Solar Cooker
Lab 24: Biomass Bag
Lab 25: Dam Fun
Unit 4: Using Energy – Do You Have the Power?
Lab 26: Pretzel Power
Lab 27: ElectromagWHAT?
Lab 28: Generate This
Lab 29: Light it Up!
Lab 30: Chip Combustion
Unit 5: Saving Energy – Conserve and Preserve
Lab 32: Insulators to the Rescue!
Lab 33: Draft Detective
Lab 34: Lighten Up
Lab 35: Solar Water Heater
Lab 36: Watts That All About?
Lab 37: Fridge Fun
Lab 38: Monitor a Month
Lab 39: Waste Watchers
Lab 39: Carbonation Conundrum
Lab 40: Road Trip
Glossary
Resources
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Index
Emily Hawbaker has always had energy and a passion for science and education. After graduating from Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Earth science and a minor in science education, she began teaching eighth grade science. Her school was chosen to take part in an energy education project where students learn about their energy use and then teach others, with the help of the National Energy Education Development (NEED) curriculum and materials. Emily saw her students come alive with the NEED program, where she is now curriculum director. In this capacity she shares her passion for energy education as a facilitator of teacher and student events and programming across the country and around the world.
“An array of simple demonstrations designed to give budding
eco-activists an understanding of how energy is stored,
transferred, used responsibly, and recycled. Developed by the
National Energy Education Development Project and demonstrated here
by a cast of dozens of young children…the low-cost projects range
from measuring shadows and charting temperature changes to
constructing a solar cooker in a pizza box, creating an inventory
of home-appliance energy needs, and competitively "mining"
chocolate chips from cookies, then trying to reconstruct the
cookies.” – Kirkus Reviews
"The NEED Project continues to produce excellent resources for
teachers. This book has an excellent variety of energy experiments.
The labs are divided up into five units, making it easier to find
the energy lab you need for your curriculum. The labs are easy to
follow, with step by step color photos. Each lab gives specific
examples as to how that specific energy concept relates to
students' everyday life. The resource section for teachers helps
explain the science behind each lab in the "Energy Explained"
section. I also like how the book gives ideas on how to incorporate
more technology into students' learning. I look forward to doing
the experiments from this book with my students." - National
Science Teachers Association Recommends
"Discover the amazing ways in which chocolate syrup, slinkies, and
cheese curls can explain everything from solar power to sound waves
and burning calories in Emily Hawbaker’s Energy Lab for Kids. Using
just a few simple tools and everyday items, experiments focus on
the production of all types of energy, the importance of
conservation, working as a team and, of course, having fun, all in
sixty minutes or less." - ForeWord Reviews
“Color photographs show children taking part in 40 activities
involving household objects: readers can simulate drilling for oil
using chocolate syrup and straws, create a “biomass bag” with
leftover food and yeast, build a generator, and construct a solar
cooker using a pizza box, aluminum foil, and plastic wrap. Hawbaker
clearly describes the implications of each activity, and sidebars
lend perspective on how the labs relate to science...It’s a
straightforward guide to energy principles that encourages
collaboration and active exploration.” – Publisher’s Weekly
"a great way for children and their parents to bond over something
that's both fun and practical"
"Throughout the book Hawbaker does an excellent job of combining an
active, visually engaging experiment with real-world learning on
energy, explaining how it works and how we can explore and exploit
it to enrich our world"
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