Energy Unit study Day #5

Energy Unit study!

Visit this site: AE kids it will help you see how many ways we use electricity in our home.

After you visit the site, walk around our house and see how many other ways we use electricity! Write down  3 more ways on a piece of paper.

Next, visit this site: Save energy  it will give you ideas about ways YOU can help save energy.

Then, write down 5 ways YOU are going to start saving energy on the same piece of paper then show it to mom!

THEN, visit this link to see if you can crack a secret code! Be a sleuth!

Energy Unit study day 4

• How much does electricity Cost? Look at our Electric bill 
• Just how much electricity does it take? : http://www.affordable-solar.com/Learning-Center/Solar-Tools/Off-Grid-Load-Estimator 

Today we will discuss how much energy we use in our home by looking at our electric bill for the month and the total KWH used in a month. 

Then we will discuss what takes up all of those KW, what are we doing to make that total?

We will look at a load estimator to find out how much electricity each appliance, light etc. uses

Then we will discuss how we can decrease that usage.

This one is from http://www.mitchellinstrument.com/outlet-kwh-meter.html?source=froogle-mitchell&gclid=CK6bkO_Ijb4CFQlafgodu1MAJw 

Energy Unit study Day 3

• Where does our electricity come from? 
• http://kids.saveonenergy.ca/en/what-is-electricity/how-electricity-gets-to-your-home.html 
• Magic School Bus Season 4 episode 9

We will start by learning how the electricity gets to our home. The link above shows us how it gets from the power source to our house!

Then we will watch Magic School Bus, this episode does a great job showing us how electricity travels into and through our home.

Energy Unit study day 2!

• We will discuss the History of electricity 
• Visit this site:  http://kids.saveonenergy.ca/en/what-is-electricity/history_andremarie_ampere.html 
• And watch: Magic School Bus Season 3 episode 5

We will start by talking about electricity and how it has a past! We will visit the link above to learn a little about some of the people who had a hand in creating it and where the terms we use come from.

Then we will watch Magic School bus on energy.

Also, as part of our unit study my 10 year old has been working on building a solar robot. We purchased a kit that is capable of making 14 different robots all run by solar energy.

So, we have been working hard and here is the first robot he built! We had a sunny day today so we were able to really see it go! Now we will start working on creating the other robots in the kit as we continue to learn about energy and specifically solar!

Energy unit study day one!

So, today we began our energy unit study.  http://lynxacademy.blogspot.com/2014/04/energy-unit-study.html

This is what we covered today!

What is electricity 

http://www.enwin.com/kids/electricity/energy_electricity.cfm 

Magic school bus-Season 2 episode 10

Static electricity experiment

Our experiment today was bending water with static electricity. It was so easy and I got I from this page! http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/bendwater.php

I found that it worked best when putting the comb next to the middle of the stream!

Energy unit study

We are going to be learning about energy! What it is, where it comes from and how we use it. 
During this study, we will create a solar robot and a tin can robot, we will also make a solar oven.
And once we have completed this study, we will begin to design an off grid energy design for a small cabin!

• What is electricity 
• http://www.enwin.com/kids/electricity/energy_electricity.cfm 
• Magic school bus-Season 2 episode 10
• Static electricity experiment

• History of electricity 
• http://kids.saveonenergy.ca/en/what-is-electricity/history_andremarie_ampere.html 
• Season 3 episode 5

• Where does our electricity come from? 
• http://kids.saveonenergy.ca/en/what-is-electricity/how-electricity-gets-to-your-home.html 
• Season 4 episode 9

• Cost? Electric bill 
• Ways to save 
• http://kids.saveonenergy.ca/en/what-is-electricity/electricity-saving-tips-page-1.html 

• Alternative sources of energy 
• http://kids.saveonenergy.ca/en/what-is-electricity/the-in-and-outs-of-making-electricity.html 
• http://solarforward.com/solarkids/ 
• http://www.propanekids.com/ 

• Our Future house 

• What will we need power for? 

• How much power will we need? 
• http://www.affordable-solar.com/Learning-Center/Solar-Tools/Off-Grid-Load-Estimator 

• Where can we get it from 

• What is the best cost option? 

Field Trip: 

http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Locations/ColumbiaRiver/Bonneville.aspx