Renewable Energy: Discover the Fuel of the Future With 20 Projects (Build It Yourself)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1619303604 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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chwms said This is just the kind of book I love giving to kids for their birthdays. This is just the kind of book I love giving to kids for their birthdays, holidays, or when summer break turns into long days. The activities are engaging and require them to critically think about the energy in their lives. I expect that some kids will find their love of science -and just fiddling about with stuff -doing the activities here. There's enough here to entice classroom teachers to engage kids with these hands-on activiti. Excellent and engaging source of renewable energy information for kids This book is a comprehensive treatment of renewable energy (and climate change and energy efficiency) but targeted in an engaging way at the middle school audience. I am really impressed with how accessible they make the information -- that covers everything from the actual facts of all kinds of renewable energy, energy efficiency and even nuclear energy; to the history of energy; the types of jobs that kids can strive for; and even. Cristina A Veresan said So help young people train to be 'Energy Olympians' with this fantastic book. Each renewable energy source is presented with. Renewable Energy: Discover the Fuel of the Future opens with a familiar image of the five interlocked Olympic rings, yet this time they represent five different renewable energy sources: sun, wind, water, biomass and geothermal. A cleaner future is indeed a new international challenge—and we need the United States to be competitive in renewable energy innovation. So help young people train to be 'Energy Olympians' with this fa
How do we heat our homes, light our rooms, and power our cars? With energy! In 2014, the United States relied on fossil fuels for about 67 percent of its power. But as the fossil fuel supply dwindles and climate change becomes an increasingly urgent issue, individuals, businesses, and governments are expanding their sources of renewable energy, including solar, wind, biofuel, hydro, and geothermal.In Renewable Energy: Discover the Fuel of the Future, readers ages 9 to 12 learn about these renewable energy sources and discover how sunshine can be used to power light bulbs and how the earth's natural heat can be used to warm our houses. This book shows kids these future jobs and gets them excited about contributing to a world run on clean energy. Young readers weigh the pros and cons of different energy sources and make their own informed opinions about which resources are the best choices for different uses.Renewable energy industries provide a booming field for future scientists and engineers. Hands-on projects, essential questions, links to online primary sources, and science-minded prompts to think more about energy, the environment, and the repercussions of our choices make this book a key addition to classrooms and libraries.
VERDICT A useful addition for larger collections with students studying renewable energy sources.—Eva Elisabeth VonAncken, formerly at Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling, NY . Examining the benefits and trade-offs of solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, wave, and biofuel energy, this work offers information and hands-on projects. A "PS" icon (primary source) is used to indicate online resources that may be accessed through a QR code. From School Library Journal Gr 4–6—Owing to an overreliance on fossil fuels, the need for renewable energy has become urgent. With adult supervision and input, some of the activities could be appropriate for science fair or classroom