Featured This Week

Green Education Directory

Green Education Catalog

Green Education Database

Real Green

Green Education Interview

Green Curriculum

Participation Opportunities

Advanced Search

Recommended Sites

March, 2008: Green-Education.Com is authoring an instructional resource to be provided to California schools who are acquiring solar photovoltaic energy systems. To help us to ensure that this resource is of the gretest possible value to California teachers, we would like to get your opinion about energy or solar energy curriculum resources.

If you have a question about this project, please send an email to "solarcurriculum@green-education.com".

Position (check all that apply):

Teacher
School Administrator
District Administrator
Other:

Grades you teach or are responsible for (check all that apply):

N/A K 1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13+

Subjects that you teach or are responsible for (check all that apply):

N/A
All
Science
Math
Social Science/Social Studies
Language Arts
Career or Business Education

Do you currently teach your students anything about solar energy?

Yes

No

If yes, please summarize briefly what you do:

What resources (other than your textbook and district and state guidelines) do you currently use to support your instruction and student learning about the subjects of energy and/or solar energy? (This might include lesson plans, worksheets, kits or other resources.)

Please rate the value of each of these types of resources in terms of what would best support your teaching of energy and solar energy concepts and principles:

a) Background information for the teacher that clearly explains the concepts and principles of the subject.

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

b) Lesson plans.

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

c) Lesson plans with handouts to guide students through learning activities.

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

d) Text material (web pages or other types of documents) that explains concepts and principles to students.

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

e) Short videos.

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

f) Long videos.

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

g) Data from the real world (about energy use in a building or community, for example, or about the performance of solar energy systems).

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

h) Worksheets that students can do on their own (e.g., matching, fill-in-the-blank, puzzles)

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

i) Kits containing hands-on supplies for student investigations (e.g., solar cells)

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

k ) Ideas and resources for science fair projects

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

l) Images, data and quotes that you (or your students) can incorporate into Powerpoint shows, websites or other presentations

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

m) Lists of websites that student can use to find out more

1          2          3          4          5

Not valuable.......................................................Very valuable

 

Please comment on your ratings, above:

 

Your Zip code (of school, organization or home)