Sharing the Planet
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📝 DEFINE 💻
📝 DEFINE 💻
ASK TONS OF QUESTIONS! This leads to understanding the process or problem through an authentic research experience.
ASK TONS OF QUESTIONS! This leads to understanding the process or problem through an authentic research experience.
Define1.mp3CLICK "▶️" to listen
WATCH the video to learn more about defining (also known as reframing) a design problem.
To better understand our challenge and our users, we need to define or reframe the problem. In this stage, it's time to ask tons of questions to better understand the process or problem.
Guiding Questions:
What do we need to know before we start making?
How can we design for our user and what are their needs?
Define2.mp3CLICK "▶️" to listen
Graphic Organizer:
Graphic Organizer:
Use the graphic organizer in Google Classroom to help you take notes on Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources (Choose 1 of each).
Think about these guiding questions:
How are resources used for energy?
How are resources conserved?
How can we use resources responsibly?
STP Define1.mp3CLICK "▶️" to listen
Click the link to create a copy for your personal graphic organizer:
Click the link to create a copy for your personal graphic organizer:
Ms. Marschall (3-M)
Ms. Royal (3-R)
Mr. Smith (3-S)
Renewable energy is a source of energy that can never be exhausted.
We can obtain renewable energy from the sun (solar energy), from the water (hydropower), from the wind (wind turbines), from hot dry rocks, magma, hot water springs (geothermal) and even from firewood, animal manure, crop residues and waste (Biomass).
Check out the resources below to learn more about each type of renewable energy.
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Read the description next to each icon to learn more about each renewable energy resource.
CLICK on the icons to explore more information about each type of energy.
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Solar
Solar
Solar energy comes from the light of the sun, which means it is a renewable source of energy. We can use its light to create pollution free electricity. When the sun shines on solar cells, they absorb its energy causing a chemical reaction that generates electricity. The electricity generated by these solar cells or photovoltaic system can be used at homes and factories or it can be stored in a battery. This stored energy then can be used at night.
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Biomass
Biomass
Biomass is a renewable energy source from wood, manure, garbage and agricultural waste.
Biomass has been used for hundreds of years to produce heat. People have used wood a form of biomass to heat their homes for centuries. Now, with new technology available, biomass can be used to generate electricity and cleaner fuels. When biomass is burned, energy is released as heat that can be transformed into electricity or fuel.
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Wind
Wind
Wind power, in its most basic form, is taking the breezes and winds that you feel on your face or that cause a flag to flap and converting it into energy. It has been used for hundreds of years for sailing, grinding grain, and for irrigation. A wind turbine turns wind into electricity. It consists of a nacelle, rotor, tower, foundation and transformer. The wind turns the rotor of the wind turbine. The rotor turns a generator (a dynamo), which makes electricity.
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Hydropower
Hydropower
Hydropower is energy from water sources such as the ocean, rivers and waterfalls.Because the source of hydropower is water, hydroelectric power plants must be located on a water source. Electricity is produced by directing or channeling moving water to power electric generators.The flow or fall of the moving water determines the amount of energy available. There is a new technology on the horizon called Microhydro. It uses smaller water flows such as water flowing out of abandoned mines to run small generators. These small generators can then power equipment on remote sites to help treat the pollution in the abandoned mine water flow.
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Geothermal
Geothermal
The Earth's heat is called geothermal energy.
Geothermal direct use dates back thousands of years, when people began using hot springs for bathing, cooking food, and loosening feathers and skin from game. Today, hot springs are still used as spas. But there are now more sophisticated ways of using this geothermal resource. In modern direct-use systems, a well is drilled into a geothermal reservoir to provide a steady stream of hot water. The water is brought up through the well, and a mechanical system delivers the heat directly for its intended use.
Geothermal hot water can be used for many applications that require heat. Its current uses include heating, raising plants in greenhouses, drying crops, heating water at fish farms, and several industrial processes, such as pasteurizing milk.
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Non-Renewable Resources
Source: Non-Renewable Resources, DEP (2020)Non-Renewable Resources
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Non-renewable energy comes from sources that can't be replenished in a short period of time. We get most of our energy from nonrenewable energy sources, which include fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, coal and from nuclear energy. Fossil fuels are thought to have been formed from the buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
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Read the description next to each icon to learn more about each non-renewable energy resource.
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Oil and Gas
Oil and Gas
Almost all oil and natural gas are found deep underground in tiny holes in rocks. Millions of years ago, the remains of plants and animals decayed and built up in thick layers. Over time, this organic material changed into coal, oil and natural gas.
Oil is a smelly liquid that is usually found in underground areas called reservoirs. Crude oil comes in many forms. Usually it is black, but green, red or brown oils are not uncommon. After crude oil is removed from the ground, it is sent to a refinery where different parts of the crude oil are separated into usable petroleum products. Some products made from petroleum include gasoline, diesel, crayons, dishwashing liquids, deodorant, tires, plastics etc.
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Natural Gas
Natural Gas
Natural gas is usually found underground near an oil source. It is a mixture of light hydrocarbons including methane, ethane, propane, butane, and pentane.This gas is lighter than air and is highly flammable. Because natural gas is colorless, odorless and tasteless, a chemical that has a sulfur-like odor is added before distribution, to give it a distinct unpleasant odor. This serves as a safety device by allowing it to be detected in cases where leaks occur.
Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel. The gas companies collect it in huge storage tanks, or underground, in old gas wells. The gas remains there until it is added back into the pipeline when people begin to use more gas, such as in the winter to heat homes. Natural gas is an essential raw material for products such as plastics, medicines, paints and fertilizers.
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Coal
Coal
Millions of years ago, the remains of plants and animals decayed and built up in thick layers. Over time, this organic material changed into coal, oil and natural gas.Coal is by far the most abundant fossil fuel on earth. It is mainly used as a combustion fuel. The large-scale use of coal began with the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. As the number of industries increased, demand for more sources of energy grew.
Power plants burn coal to generate electricity. When coal is baked in hot furnaces, it is used to smelt iron ore into iron needed for making steel. Coal can also be used to produce plastics, tar, synthetic fibers, fertilizers and medicine.
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Nuclear
Nuclear
Nuclear energy is energy that comes from the nucleus (core) of an atom. Atoms are the particles that make up all objects in the universe. Atoms consist of neutrons, protons, and electrons.
The fuel most widely used by nuclear power plants for fissioning is uranium. Uranium is the heaviest of the 92 naturally occurring elements and is classified as a metal.
Uranium was formed when the earth was created and is found in rocks all over the world. Rocks that contain a lot of uranium are called uranium ore, or pitch-blende. Uranium, although abundant, is a nonrenewable energy source.
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Flipgrid Reflection
Flipgrid Reflection
CLICK the link to your class Flipgrid to share a video response on your learning about renewable and non-renewable resources. Use your graphic organizer as a resource for information to share.
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Click the link to post to the Flipgrid for your class:
Click the link to post to the Flipgrid for your class:
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