Activity 2: Energy Roundup &Background This activity is a quick and fun way for students to learn more or check their understanding about energy sources used in the United States.
Objectives Students will be able to identify an energy source as renewable or nonrenewable. Students will be able to list some simple facts about each of the ten energy sources.
Time 15-30 minutes
Materials Colored cardstock, posterboard, or construction paper, 5 pieces each of 2 colors Scissors
Tape Energy Source Facts, page 68 Energy Source Cards, page 69
2 Preparation Decide if you will make re-usable posters (see Extensions). Gather materials. Cut Energy Source Cards apart for game use.
Procedure for Making Posters 1. Print the Energy Source Cards so that you have one card per student and an equal number of each energy source. Cut the graphics out and laminate, if necessary. 2. On sheets of plain paper, write down or print the energy facts for each energy source. Do NOT write the names of the energy sources on these plain sheets of paper. 3. Number ten pieces of paper, one through ten, in large numbers. 4. Prepare five posters for the nonrenewable energy sources and five posters for the renewable energy sources in another color, as follows. Mount one fact sheet to the lower half of each poster board, making sure the fact sheets correspond to the colors of the poster boards. Mount the top edge of the number sheets near the top of the posters. Do not secure the bottom edge of the number sheets to the posters; the number sheets will be used as flaps. 5. Write the names of the energy sources on the posters, underneath the number sheet flaps. Lightly secure the bottom edge of the number sheets with tape to the posters.
Procedure for Game Play 1. Mount the posters around the walls of the room. Space the posters equally apart and set up chairs for each station, if desired. 2. Explain that you have hung posters with clues around the room, and you will give them a card with an energy source. Students are to locate the poster they think describes their energy source without speaking to each other. Allow students only a few minutes to do this – up to 7 minutes maximum. 3. Have students carefully lift the flap covering the energy source name to check themselves, without revealing its identity to the rest of the class. Allow 2 or 3 more minutes for students to locate their correct posters, if necessary. 4. Allow energy source groups to select the three least revealing or most difficult to guess clues about their energy sources. Start with one group and have them read the three clues they suggested. The first group to guess that energy source correctly will then read their three difficult clues, and play progresses in this manner until all groups have read their clues.
Extension Laminate the poster board and numbered flaps for repeated use, and tape new printed copies of energy source facts.
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