TEAMS+-+RENEWABLE+ENERGY+SU09

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 * [1]** [|FUTURAMA WEBQUEST ON QUESTGARDEN - Eva Horn - James Cook University]

[2] [|The 'Green' Dream House Webquest on QuestGarden - Timothy Fox - F. V. Pankow Center]

[3] [|Design an Energy Efficient Home WebQuest on QuestGarden - no name]

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[5] [|Power and Energy in the Home] (Applet) This lesson is designed to allow middle-school students (and others) to explore power and energy usage in the home. The Java applet shows power flowing through the transformer drum, the meter, and into the home circuit breaker panel. From there, it powers various appliances including video game consoles, Energy Star appliances, standard light bulbs, and hair dryers. Users can open and close switches allowing students to turn appliances on and off and track power usage. By interacting with the applet, students learn concepts such as power conservation, network flows, and the relationship between power and energy. The associated print lessons include student activities that guide the user to explore how the amount of power needed and time of use both determine the amount of energy used. A small solar panel introduces net metering and distributed generation concepts. Teacher comments, additional resources, activity extensions and alignments to national math and science standards are included.

[6] [|The Secret Lives of Energy]
 * The Energy Story
 * Energy is Born
 * Energy Types
 * Energy Changes
 * Energy Generation
 * The Energy Problem
 * Conservation of Energy
 * The Aging of Energy
 * Finite Resources
 * The Oil "Crisis"
 * Energy Pollution
 * Discussion Topics
 * The Energy Story
 * Conserving Energy
 * Appliance Efficiency
 * Heating Conservation
 * Renewable Energy

Resources
Can be downloaded free from [] Students can use this program to create 3D images of their house plans. There are also tutorials on how to use this program. ** This site contains a video (Sustainability – What We're Thinking) clip that examines what people in New Zealand know about what sustainable living means. Runs for 8 minutes
 * Google SketchUp**
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 * Scoop Independent News website

[] **[1]** **Government websites** These websites are government and council websites about sustainability, environmental issues, climate change and housing regulations. [] [] [] [] [] []
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[] **[1]** ** This website explains what the government is doing in regard to sustainable housing and discusses some sources of government rebates for the use of environmentally products.
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 * Queensland ** ** Government smart housing initiative.

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 * Douglas Shire Council website: Eco – Smart House website **.

This website explains some of the ways you can minimize the affects your house has on natural resources such as shading your walls to save energy on cooling costs. It has a hyperlink to the Environmental protection agency Eco Smart housing website that talks about the effect of housing on the environment. []


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** This website is a Queensland Government website that describes how to go about designing and building an environmentally home. It has a printable brochure that students can use as a kind of checklist for what they want to put in their homes.
 * Sustainable Homes website

[] **[1]** **Sustainability websites** These websites are about sustainability and sustainable housing. [] [] [] [] ** This a New Zealand website that has hyper links to environmentally friendly architect, builder and building suppliers. Each of these site links discuss what their company is doing to help to make housing environmentally friendly.
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 * Sustainable House Day website

[] ** This site contains information on renewable energy and building green etc.
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 * Natural Life Magazine Website

[] ** This website contains information on different ways to build green homes, builders and material and products to be used.
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 * Green Home Construction

[] **[1]** **Natural resources websites** ** This site contains many short videos on how waste products are handled, how electricity is made and distributed, heating and cooling houses, environmentally friendly house design elements etc.
 * The Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) website (Just the Fact TV show)

[] This site contains a lot of information on topics such as energy, pollution, climate change, waste management, sustainability and sustainable manufacturing.
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[] This site is all about energy. If you click on the Kids Only link you will find many fun and educational activities.
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[] These websites are about environmental issues such as climate change, the greenhouse effect and pollution.
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[] [] **Architecture websites** These websites are about building supplies and other environmentally sustainable aspects of housing which may help you when planning your house. [] [] **[1]** **Search engines** These websites are search engines which may help you find topics on sustainable housing, the environmental impact of housing, and other topics related to the task.
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[] [] [] Unlike Yahooligans!, the Dib Dab Do and Dilly too database is non commercial and it is reviewed by adults to be safe for kids and teenagers (Media Awareness Network, 2006). So students should be free to search on this database without bumping into objectionable or offensive material.
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