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Nakagawa, Charles H.; Honquilada, Q. L. – 1985
This book provides the basic knowledge and guides for the construction and operation of a small-scale, family-size biogas unit. The first chapter discusses the benefits of biogas production and the Chinese biogas model. The second chapter shows the components, design formulas, and sizing units of the biogas model. Chapter 3 describes actual…
Descriptors: Agricultural Skills, Biological Influences, Construction (Process), Energy Conservation
Department of Energy, Washington, DC. – 2001
This guide explores the contributions that parents and teachers can make to enhance energy choice decisions that affect the design and operation of educational facilities. It also examines how making the right choice can create better learning environments. The guide reveals how schools have turned energy improvements into powerful teaching tools;…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy Conservation
Callahan, Michael P.; Parker, Danny S.; Sherwin, John R.; Anello, Michael T. – 1999
Findings are presented from a 2-year experiment exploring ways to reduce energy costs and improve the learning environment in Florida's 25,000 portable classrooms. Improvements were made in two highly instrumented portable classrooms in the following areas: installation of a T8 lighting system with electronic ballasts; a high efficiency heat pump…
Descriptors: Air Conditioning, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy Conservation
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Crooks, Lisa – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1990
Creating a "city" in the classroom can be an effective way to teach daily living skills in math, social studies, nutrition, energy conservation, and other subjects. Students can learn about jobs such as grocery story cashier and bank teller, and can learn about earning, spending, and saving money. (PB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community, Conservation Education, Daily Living Skills
Arnott, Michael – 1985
This book describes one approach to building and operating biogas systems. The biogas systems include raw material preparation, digesters, separate gas storage tanks, use of the gas to run engines, and the use of the sludge as fertilizer. Chapters included are: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Biogas Systems are Small Factories"; (3)…
Descriptors: Agricultural Skills, Biological Influences, Energy Conservation, Energy Management
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1982
The purpose of this guide is to provide direction and assistance to driver education instructors and school administrators as they plan and implement quality programs of traffic safety instruction. Materials are divided into seven chapters conveying: (1) the organization and administration of driver and traffic safety education, (2) the driving…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Alcohol Education, Driver Education, Drug Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Science, Technical and Environmental Education. – 1986
Environmental education should lead children, as future citizens, to acquire a more objective view of the way human societies function. It should also encourage an individual to take an active part in the community and to arouse the desire to take a responsible attitude regarding natural resource management. This experimental teaching module…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy Conservation, Energy Education
Love, Cathleen T., Ed.; Weis, Susan F., Ed. – 1985
This collection contains papers dealing with contemporary issues in and techniques for justifying and promoting home economics education. The following papers by Susan F. Weiss are included: "The Trend of Power Decentralization,""Entrepreneurship," and "Working Successfully with an Advisory Committee." Catherine T. Love wrote the following papers…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advisory Committees, Career Development, Economic Change
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of Instructional Services. – 1983
This administrative and curriculum guide is designed for use in establishing and teaching a driver education course for high school students. The first section of the guide, a discussion of program administration, deals with various aspects of program management as well as the roles and responsibilities of the key practitioners involved in driver…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Behavioral Objectives