One of the challenges that face humanity is how to manage resource and environmental endowments in a way that will guarantee continued survival and ensure the well-being of future generations. Those resources most important to human survival are food, water, and energy. When the population of the world reached 5 billion in 1987, approximately 87…

This guide contains a bibliography of curricula (available from agencies, organizations, and through ERIC), audiovisual aids, children's books, and publications about resource recovery. Resource recovery is presented as a strategy to reduce air and water pollution, to conserve natural resources, and to save energy. These materials (suitable for…

This Energy Conservation Curriculum, developed for the Texas Education Agency, is designed to be used for teaching energy conservation in secondary, postsecondary, or adult/continuing education courses. It consists of 11 modules for use in practical, hands-on vocational programs that equip students with the ability to identify, monitor, manage,…

This curriculum guide on textiles and clothing, covering one of the five content areas of the Energy and Family Curriculum Guide, has been designed to provide learning experiences and identify resources that can be used to develop units of study related to energy usage and conservation. The guide is intended for use in comprehensive courses of…

This unit of instruction on energy conservation in field crop production was designed for use by agribusiness and natural resources teachers in Florida high schools and by agricultural extension agents as they work with adults and students. It is one of a series of 11 instructional units (see note) written to help teachers and agents to educate…

This document is one of five learning packets on alternative energy developed as part of a descriptive curriculum research project in Arkansas (see note). The overall objectives of the learning packets are to improve the level of instruction in the alternative energies by vocational exploration teachers, and to facilitate the integration of new…

This core curriculum contains five units of material for teaching energy to vocational agriculture students. Energy uses and the benefits of energy conservation are covered in a unit on the impact of energy on agriculture. Discussed next are tractor performance and Nebraska tractor test data for selecting and evaluating tractors for maximum fuel…

This document is the result of a study to determine the general availability of free or low-cost energy-related educational materials for primary and secondary school students and educators. Some of the organizations represented in this list take policy positions on energy issues and express them in the school level materials. Contained in this…

This publication addresses the ways in which energy can be harnessed to improve the quality of human life. Seven units are included: (1) sundials; (2) solar houses; (3) greenhouse; (4) solar heaters; (5) windmills; (6) biomasses; and (7) photovolaic cells. Each unit contains six subheadings: objectives; introduction; presentation and…

This pamphlet is composed of two sections. The first is an address by S. David Freeman delivered to the Boston Conference of the Interstate Energy Conservation Leadership Project (IECL). Freeman claims that the energy crisis can be the most effective teaching aid of the decade, and that the energy crisis reflects a set of problems that require…

This guide presents units involved in unifying the student's views of energy, environment, and economic issues in making decisions required of the citizen. Goals, concepts, and background information are presented at the beginning of the booklet. A pretest of relevant knowledge is provided. Other units include: (1) example discussion questions;…

These ten performance-based lesson plans concentrate on tasks related to energy conservation in the home. They are (1) caulk cracks, holes, and joints; (2) apply weatherstripping to doors and windows; (3) add plastic/solar screen window covering; (4) arrange furniture for saving energy; (5) set heating/cooling thermostat; (6) replace faucet…

Over one-hundred citations, the majority of which are current works dating from the seventies, are provided in this annotated bibliography focusing on energy. Entries include books, pamphlets, reports, magazine articles, bibliographies, newsletters, and curriculum materials, such as audiovisual aids, guides and units, and simulations which will be…

Calls for teacher education workshops to update inservice teachers in response to national/international energy situation. Lists major topics presented and/or discussed, treatment, and rationale for treatment. Discusses sources of energy curriculum/resource materials and provides results of a follow-up survey of teachers attending workshops.…

This curriculum guide is composed of 16 lesson plans about terminology and concepts relevant to the four major methods of handling solid waste problems: (1) reuse; (2) recycling; (3) conversion of waste to energy ; and (4) landfilling. Games, investigations, a play, projects, a slide presentation, and skits are some of the teaching techniques…